How to remove Powered by Kunena

(version 6.3.7)

As it is eating too much SEO juice, although their discussion board is very easy to manage and use, this was quite anoying.
If you are in the same situation, the current version of Kunena 6.2.1 can offers to fix this quite easily and swiftly.
Follow the guide below - in just six easy steps, no one will see that branding.

Here are the steps required to remove the back-link branding.

1)

Open your installation of Kunena, and make sure, you create backup of your site installation first.

2)

Open the following file:
libraries/kunena/src/Controller/Application/Display.php

3)

Find the part of the code containing the following statement:
if ($this->config->get('credits', 1)) {
$this->output->appendAfter($this->poweredBy());
}

4)

Change the value of 1 to 0 and save the file.

5)

Upload the saved file back to previous source folder overwritting the original one.

6)

And the magic is done, no more "Powered by Kunena " and neither in the source code - that leads to no SEO juice losses. It is much better then use CSS classes to hide the link before your site visitors. Indexing robots would still see the link to kunena.org site.