How can I add custum footer to my blog?

Hi Shivank,

What kinds of changes do you need doing to your footer?

If it’s just CSS changes, e.g., background color, text color, text size, etc., then the easiest step to take is to download a plugin like http://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/ where you’ll put your style changes.

If you need more structural changes, then you’ll have to create a child theme (http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) and duplicate footer.php from the parent theme into your child theme. There you can make your changes.

It’s important that you don’t apply modifications directly to your theme, otherwise, the next time your theme gets updated, you’ll lose all your changes. And it’s recommended that you always update your theme (and plugins, and WordPress itself).

If you let me know exactly what you’d like done to the footer I could be of much more help to you.

All the best,
Cheers!
– Maria Antonietta

Hey Shivank,

It looks like you need to change the content of your footer. Therefore, you need to create a child theme. There’s a lot of material online on how to do this, and creating child themes for my clients is something that I do very often: they’re a powerful customization tool. Here I can only try to summarize the required steps:

#1: Create a folder and call it what you like, let’s say mychildtheme.
#2: Inside this folder create a .css file and call it style.css
#3: Open style.css and add these lines at the very top:

/*
 Theme Name:   My Child Theme
 Theme URI:    http://example.com/mychildtheme/
 Description:  Parent Theme Name Child Theme
 Author:       Your Name
 Author URI:   http://example.com
 Template:     parentthemedirectory
 Version:      1.0.0
 Tags:         light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
 Text Domain:  mychildtheme
*/

/*
For older themes, and themes that do not use wp_enqueue_style() to enqueue their stylesheet, use the following line where parentthemedirectory is the name of the directory where the theme resides:

@import url("../parentthemedirectory/style.css");
*/

/* =Theme customization starts here
-------------------------------------------------------------- */

Obviously, replace parentthemedirectory, Parent Theme Name and mychildtheme with your parent theme’s directory, name, and child theme name respectively. In your child theme style.css you can change the CSS styles of your new theme.

Now copy footer.php from the parent into the child theme, open it into a code editor and add your mods: add links, delete powered by WordPress, etc.

To fix the footer to the bottom when no content is there, in style.css of your child theme (from now on I only refer to the child theme), add this rule:

#footer {
    clear: both;
}

I took a screenshot of your site after deleting most content from the page using firebug (don’t worry, your site is still there), to show you that it works. You can access it here:

http://uploadpie.com/7tvAT

I hope this helps. If you stumble upon any issues, don’t hesitate to reach out for more help.

Cheers!
– Maria Antonietta

I had deleted most of the content. I could try getting rid of all of it and see what happens, but I can’t do it right now. I’ll get back to you in a couple of hours or so, if it’s all right.

My guess is that it will work, but I’ll be giving it a test later.