The first site does not have any custom CSS associated with the child theme/footer.
It does have HTML added in a div to footer.php.
Thanks Seacoast – thanks for the reply but are you able to provide an answer to my problem how do I make the footer the same width as the page?
I am very new to this and not an advanced user so the mroe basic the answer the better
Many thanks
Seacoast – I added the child theme as detailed in the support doc for doing this. I haven’t added anything else yet to the child theme but I know I can add for instance a footer .php to the child theme so that the changes I want to make if there is an update to the parent theme.
I want to make the footer the same width so if oyu can help me with how to do this I can add that as a specific .php to the child theme – or would it be sufficient to add this coding to the stye.css sheet
Yes. copy footer.php from parent to child theme of the new install and add the links and copyright that was added to other footer.php file. You will need to update/make appropriate the links/info.
OK thanks – I just added a footer .php in the same directory as the new style.css file in the child directory and I added a new link in the foter as a test as a test. When I have refreshed it and refreshed the actual site this new link is not showing on the footer.
What am I doing wrong here – how do i do this?
I see the links – force a full refresh with ctl + f5 – if that does not work clear your browser cache (all except passwords if you save them)
Tried that and still not picking up the footer.php from the child theme?
I added a line in the footer by editing the main theme and it showed the change on the site so the child theme footer is still not linked
Any thoughts
OK i HAve resolved it myself – I made the whole site the same width and I prefer this with no border.
Inspected the elemnent on the site itself then linked to the .css file where the code was and adjusted it to the relevant width.
Very pleased with this as I really dont like borders on web sites.
