The Magento footer links are collected from a few different layout components:
1. About Us | Customer Service
-> cms.xml
These two links are default static blocks taken from the database. To edit them, go to Magento Admin -> CMS -> Static Blocks.
2. Site Map
-> catalog.xml
3. Search Terms | Advanced Search
-> catalogsearch.xml
4. Contact Us
-> contacts.xml
5. RSS
-> rss.xml
* 2. Site Map, 3. Search Terms | Advanced Search, 4. Contact Us, and 5. RSS are the HTML links pulled by the function “$this->getLinks()”, not by “$this->getChildHtml(name)”. These links are pulled from a few different places as specified above.
6. To edit the default Magento footer message ” Help Us to Keep Magento Healthy – Report All Bugs (ver. 1.2.1.2) © 2007 Magento Demo Store. All Rights Reserved.”, edit the following file.
-> /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/page/html/footer.phtml
7. To edit the copyright notice,
-> /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/page/html/footer.phtml