Comments on: WordPress Themes: The Ignored Footer

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:53:44 +0000

Please contact the Theme author or ask for help on the WordPress Support Forum. They may be able to help you if you cannot understand the instructions in this article. Thanks.

By: Moses

Moses — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 03:33:03 +0000

please I do not know how to customized my theme footer to mine,am using online marketer theme please help me.

By: sam

sam — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:32:00 +0000

Thanks man, I got it worked

By: Seo Warrior

Seo Warrior — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 07:43:59 +0000

I have to admit that I haven’t been giving my footer much love. Great article.

By: Hussam

Hussam — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:21:44 +0000

i always ignored the footer,i think its time to work on my website footer

Thanks

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:21:39 +0000

Confused? You think that hiding anything on a web page is a good idea?

By: Gouri

Gouri — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:42:52 +0000

I still get confused sometimes.. Should the footer be used to display things or hide them?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:34:15 +0000

The footer is not widgetized nor an option for most WordPress Themes, but some do have that option. Most people ignore the footer, hence the article. The only way to change the footer is in the footer template file of the Theme.

By: westgate

westgate — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:20:18 +0000

hi, i am new to wordpress, trying to figure the way around, and googled to this blog – which seems to be the best on the subject – could you please help me, i am missing something: there are header settings in wp, i can change an image, to specify other parameters – it is under appearance / header, so in my simplicity i would expect to find appearance / footer – how come this is not the case?! is the only way to change the footer to change the code in php file?! not that i mind some php, but still probably i am missing something?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:50:29 +0000

That's a good idea. You can put anything in the footer. I like it. Go for it! The code would be at the top of the page you have to add an ID for top or pagetop that is unique such as:



At the bottom in the footer you could add a link to return the people to the top of the page, though it would be tricky as comments and a lot of other stuff might get in the way and it wouldn't be a clear "back to the top of the page" link. So get creative in your layout and design.

Return to top of the page

It could be a button or text or whatever you want to indicate the function of the link.