everything about the footer is gone

Have you tried re-uploading a fresh copy of the theme using FTP? What theme are you using? Where did you download it from?

Unless you’re using a version that’s distributed on WordPress.org you need to contact the people who gave this version to you.

Try deactivating all of your plugins to explore whether any could be responsible.

Ghazayel … same here 3.9.1 … but before this was not happening; unsure if it is some recent plugin … update (no new install).

Once I refix widgets they are ok for 10-12 hours so I don’t know how to easiliy replicate this. A nightmare.

Did you solve this ??

@ghazayel: sounds like this is a theme issue. I’m sorry but as you appear to be using a non-WPORG theme, you need to seek support from the theme’s developers – paid or otherwise. We only support themes downloaded from wordpress.org here.

@ghazayel … I might have … crossing finger. Mine is stable.

It must have been one of 2 usually very reliable plugins: 1 is “WordPress SEO by Yoast” and the other is “Redirection”. I was able to frame when this behaviour started – and looking in the plugin directories, I saw I updated only these ones after that date.

Now I rolled both back to previous versions (acutally I used a major release for redirection 1.3): stopped plugins, delete directories and loaded the olders via FTP.

Site is now stable from 24 hours. I cannot tell which of the two is the bad guy: being a production site I did not want to try with just one or the other. So I can only toss a coin 😀 However – amazed as these 2 have always been EXTEREMELY reliable and I could never trace them to a sidebar or footer issue in widgets !!!

Not sure if this is tour case – but if you have any of them, try roll back to previous vesrions (around june).