Some of you may choose to add a Creative Commons license to your site. Before you do that, however, understand what a CC license will do and what you’re getting into. The Creative Commons site offers a pretty good explanation of what CC is and what it means to licence your work CC. This article from WIRED UK on why they went with a CC license might be helpful as well. Here’s a bit on what what it means for YouTube to adopt CC licensing.
Now to business:
While some themes include a widgetized area for something like a CC license, the easiest way to add one to most themes is as follows.
First, visit the CC site, click on the green “Choose a License” button and select the license you’d like. Once you do that, you will be able to choose the style of CC license button you’ll have on your site and will be able to copy the code that’s been generated for you.
Select and copy the code to your clipboard. Next, go to the dashboard of your site (make sure you’re logged in.) In the menu on the far right, click on “Appearance,” and then select “Widgets.” That should take you to the widget page. On that page, look for a button that says “Text.” Click and drag that all the way to the right sidebar where you should see other widgets that appear on your site.
Once you do that and put the text widget where you want it, click on the down arrow icon to the right of “Text.” This will allow you to paste your license into the text widget. It should look something like this:
Once you’ve done this and clicked the “Save” button, your CC license button will appear in your sidebar or footer or wherever you chose to put it. Please post questions of corrections in the comments.