Footer Widgets…

dsb0328
(@dsb0328)

10 years, 5 months ago

Hello. Is it possible to have 6 or even more footer widgets? I’m building a site and my client wants 2 footer areas on top of each other and each with 3 columns across.

I tried Lightweight Grid Columns, thinking it would be the perfect plugin for what I need, but it’s simply for text only. And still, it doesn’t look like you can edit the look of the text or add images.

My other thought was using a plugin called Page Builder by SiteOrigin because it let’s you put in as many columns into a row that you want, but I thought I’d check here first. They also want the columns to be all the way across the page like a Section, but not sure if the above plugin will do that.

I guess I could do all of this with CSS, but I want to make it easy for them to edit in the future. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Theme Author Tom
(@edge22)

10 years, 5 months ago

Hi there,

You would have to create more widget areas, and then add the footer.php file to your child theme and add the extra widget areas.

It would definitely require a little bit of coding.

Are you wanting these areas to show up on every single page? Or only one?

Thread Starter dsb0328
(@dsb0328)

10 years, 5 months ago

Actually, I could get by with the bottom 3 footers on all pages and the top 3 on just one page. So, I guess technically, I would only need 3 footers if you have a solution to the 3 columns above it.
Theme Author Tom
(@edge22)

10 years, 5 months ago
Do you have our GP Hooks add-on? If so, you could use the “Before Footer” hook and add the columns:
```
<div class="grid-container">
    <div class="grid-33">
        First column
    </div>
    <div class="grid-33">
        Second column
    </div>
    <div class="grid-33">
        Third column
    </div>
</div>
```
Thread Starter dsb0328
(@dsb0328)

10 years, 5 months ago

Hmmm. I do have that add-on, but I’m not really familiar with how Hooks work. Even though I don’t know what this will do, I will give it a try and see what happens.

Thread Starter dsb0328
(@dsb0328)

10 years, 5 months ago

Hey Tom. I went ahead and tried that, but got confused and decided to try another way.It ended up putting First column, Second column, and Third column across the the screen above the footer widgets, so I see that it worked. I just didn’t know where to go from there.

On another Footer related note, is there a way to stick the footer and footer widgets to the bottom of the screen if there isn’t enough content to fill the screen? Thought maybe this was another thing dealing with Hooks?

Theme Author Tom
(@edge22)

10 years, 5 months ago

Once those columns were added you would just need to add your content into those 3 columns in place of the “x column” text. Does that not work for you?

Not easily I’m afraid, more on that here: https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/how-to-stick-the-footer-at-the-bottom/

Thread Starter dsb0328
(@dsb0328)

10 years, 5 months ago

Unfortunately that won’t work for me because I need to be able to customize the text and add images and Social Media icons in there. Not a huge deal though, because I think I am going to use Page Builder by SiteOrigin plugin along with this theme. It might work out perfectly, even though there are some things that get a little funky while working with this plugin with this theme. But there are workarounds.

As for the sticky footer, I’m trying the different options out now. I was thinking about trying something like this in which I found for another theme per a Google search, but your suggestions look way easier. And I’m not sure if this would work with all themes anyway. Just hopeful your ideas work for my needs instead. I’ll let you know what I figure out.

Theme Author Tom
(@edge22)

10 years, 5 months ago

Sounds good – let me know how it goes 🙂

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