how to edit footer so its the same on all pages?

(@paul343)

I edited footer php ,i managed to place a policy page link in there
but it only shows on homepage, I want my privacy policy on all pages. I’ve been trying to solve this problem for days! can anyone help? here is my footer php

<footer id="colophon" role="contentinfo">
		<div id="site-generator">

			<?php echo __('© ', 'hostmarks') . esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) );  ?>
            <?php if ( (is_front_page() && ! is_paged()) || (is_page_template('alt_blog_template.php') && is_front_page() && ! is_paged()) ) : ?>
            <?php _e('- Powered by ', 'hostmarks'); ?><a>" title="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Semantic Personal Publishing Platform', 'hostmarks' ); ?>"><?php _e('WordPress' ,'hostmarks'); ?></a>
			<?php _e('  ', 'hostmarks'); ?><a>"><?php _e('- privacy policy', 'hostmarks'); ?></a>
            <?php endif; ?>

		</div>
	</footer><!-- #colophon -->
</div><!-- #container -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>	</footer><!-- #colophon -->
</div><!-- #container -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

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albertstrun
(@albertstrun)

10 years, 6 months ago
Hi, I’ve just had a play around with the footer.php and came up with this solution. (deleted conditional php tags that were getting in the way).
```
<footer id="colophon" role="contentinfo">
		<div id="site-generator">
     
      
      <a href="http://yourlinkhere.co.uk"> your Footer Link </a>
     

		</div>
	</footer>
</div>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>
```
WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

10 years, 6 months ago

@albertstrun – what happens to those changes when the theme is updated?

albertstrun
(@albertstrun)

10 years, 6 months ago

Ahh yes; cart before the horse. I am hoping /assuming Paul is using a child theme?

Thread Starter paul343
(@paul343)

10 years, 6 months ago

hi guys I found a solution , I just deleted the word “front”
from the footer php file

`<?php if ( (is_page() && ! is_paged()) || (is_page_template(‘alt_blog_template.php’) && is_page() && ! is_paged())

it worked!

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

10 years, 6 months ago

I hope you are, in fact, using a child theme so that your changes won’t be permanently lost when the theme is updated –

http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Thread Starter paul343
(@paul343)

10 years, 6 months ago

no im not using a child theme, never heard of it before now
il have to look in to it

Thread Starter paul343
(@paul343)

10 years, 6 months ago

is it to late to create a child theme ive already made changes to
the theme?

WPyogi
(@wpyogi)

10 years, 6 months ago

It’s never too late, but it’s more work – as you’ll need to move your changes to the child theme. But it’s really going to be worth it to do that now to avoid a bigger mess down the road when the theme is updated and/or you don’t update and eventually run into compatibility issues.

Do you know which files you’ve changed? It’s not usually that hard to more changes to a child theme – for style.css you can compare yours to the original and for .php files (except functions) you can just put a copy in the child theme. Functions.php is more complicated.

mtautuan
(@mtautuan)

9 years, 6 months ago

Hello good day, How to edit the page content on the Privacy policy.

mtautuan
(@mtautuan)

9 years, 6 months ago

this is the link on our privacy policay, and I need to change some word on it, where do I go and edit?