I am building a website using "Thinking Girl" theme. I would like to remove the items in the footer...ie: blogroll, categories, etc. My problem is that I can't figure out how to manipulate the footer, it seems to be in some sort of "code". Any thoughts??? Site address is http://www.choicespcc.com.
[resolved] Need to remove items from footer. (19 posts)
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frazzledmama
Posted 2 years ago # -
jwmort
Posted 2 years ago #go to the page in your web browser, view the page source. Copy all to the clipboard.
next go to WP admin module and open the footer, select all, paste over the coded footer.
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Posted 2 years ago #Hmm, when I did that, it doubled the header and body....
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Can you place a copy of your footer.php file in the WordPress pastebin?
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Posted 2 years ago #Sure, here is the link
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That's not your footer.php file (or it shouldn't be). That's the entire source code from one of your pages.
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Posted 2 years ago #Ok, that is what I was trying to figure out. I was following advice from jwmort. Here is what my footer looks like when I open it in the editor.
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I need to figure out exactly where that footer starts and ends.
Can you edit index.php and look for `<?php get_footer;?> then change it to:?<!-- Evil Footer Devil START --> <?php get_footer(); ?> <!-- Evil Footer Devil END -->Once that's in place, I should be able to decode it for you and we can see if the encoding includes your footer boxes or just some copyright details.
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Posted 2 years ago #Ok, did that, now what do you need to see?
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Um - I don't see a copy of that amended footer in your site's theme right now.
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Posted 2 years ago #Crud! It's in there. I opened the theme editor, open the index.php file and removed the get footer that was there, and then added what you sent me. I am SO frustrated with this thing. I don't want to remove the credit, I just want the extra stuff gone!
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No - open footer.php and make the changes.
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Posted 2 years ago #Okay, I must have misunderstood. I edited the index.php. Sorry to be so dinky. Ok, in the footer.php, it's all the coded junk, so I am going to just cut that all out and put in the amended code???
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Jordan Acosta
Posted 2 years ago #You said you wanted to get rid of the Archives, Categories, Blogroll and Meta at the bottom of the page? The theme is designed to make that look like part of the footer, but in reality it's your sidebar. Instead of
footer.phplook insidebar.php, it's all in there. But you shouldn't go into the template files to change that stuff. Instead, go into the admin panel and edit the sidebar the normal way. -
Posted 2 years ago #@elf Nope, doesn't work in this one. I had to edit the theme to get ride of the sidebar stuff, which I had no problem with. But the footer did not change.
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@frazzledmama: No.
Add
<!-- Evil Footer Devil START -->just before the coded stuff and
<!-- Evil Footer Devil END -->just after. -
Posted 2 years ago #@esmi - Thanks for your patience. I totally misunderstood. I did what you said :)
Thanks!
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Original decoded footer complete with unwanted boxes:
http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1528535Footer with boxes removed:
http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1528544You should be able to just replace everything within footer.php with the code from the second link above. But you may want to keep a decoded copy of the original footer - just in case.
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Posted 2 years ago #It's perfect. Thank you SO much!
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