Child theme doesn't effect website

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the quick reply. I wanted to get rid of ‘powered by wordpress’ and to add in a link to my disclaimer. Here is my edited version of the footer.php. I have made the changes on line 50-51 I think. I deleted the following:

<span class="site-title"><a>" rel="home"><?php bloginfo( 'name' ); ?></a></span>
				<a>"><?php printf( __( 'Proudly powered by %s', 'twentysixteen' ), 'WordPress' ); ?></a>

And replaced it with:

<p>&copy2016 <a href="http://tombretravel.com">tombretravel</a></p>
<a href="http://tombretravel.com/disclaimer/">Disclaimer</a>

So in full, this is what my footer.php file looks like:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying the footer
 *
 * Contains the closing of the #content div and all content after
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Sixteen
 * @since Twenty Sixteen 1.0
 */
?>

		</div><!-- .site-content -->

		<footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo">
			<?php if ( has_nav_menu( 'primary' ) ) : ?>
				<nav class="main-navigation" role="navigation" aria-label="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Footer Primary Menu', 'twentysixteen' ); ?>">
					<?php
						wp_nav_menu( array(
							'theme_location' => 'primary',
							'menu_class'     => 'primary-menu',
						 ) );
					?>
				</nav><!-- .main-navigation -->
			<?php endif; ?>

			<?php if ( has_nav_menu( 'social' ) ) : ?>
				<nav class="social-navigation" role="navigation" aria-label="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Footer Social Links Menu', 'twentysixteen' ); ?>">
					<?php
						wp_nav_menu( array(
							'theme_location' => 'social',
							'menu_class'     => 'social-links-menu',
							'depth'          => 1,
							'link_before'    => '<span class="screen-reader-text">',
							'link_after'     => '</span>',
						) );
					?>
				</nav><!-- .social-navigation -->
			<?php endif; ?>

			<div class="site-info">
				<?php
					/**
					 * Fires before the twentysixteen footer text for footer customization.
					 *
					 * @since Twenty Sixteen 1.0
					 */
					do_action( 'twentysixteen_credits' );
				?>
<p>&copy2016 <a href="http://tombretravel.com">tombretravel</a></p>
<a href="http://tombretravel.com/disclaimer/">Disclaimer</a>

			</div><!-- .site-info -->
		</footer><!-- .site-footer -->
	</div><!-- .site-inner -->
</div><!-- .site -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

Thanks for your help!

I’ve cleared the cache both on my web browser and in the ‘wp super cache’ itself and still no joy. Is my coding correct? Or am I missing something really obvious?

RESOLVED!

Apologies for all the comments! Basically, the child theme’s footer php file was called ‘footer-child-1.php’. I renamed it to footer.php and it solved my problem! Think wordpress didn’t like the file name!

So all sorted, thanks again for all the help Michael!