Title: HTML in footer
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# HTML in footer

 *  Resolved [rightsidehealth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rightsidehealth/)
 * (@rightsidehealth)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/)
 * Quick question…I can’t seem to figure out how to write html in the footer. Just
   want to put a couple links down there (privacy policy, blog commenting policy,
   etc). Seems to only take plain text.
 * Thanks!
    – Rick

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 *  [kaniamea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaniamea/)
 * (@kaniamea)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493702)
 * Hi Rick,
 * first create a child theme of Decode [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * Activate it and then add the footer.php file in it. Locate:
 *     ```
       <div class="theme-info">
       <p><?php printf(__( '%1$s by %2$s', 'decode' ), '<a href="http://ScottHSmith.com/projects/decode/">Decode</a>', 'Scott Smith') ?></p>
       </div><!-- .theme-info -->
       ```
   
 * and add your links:
 *     ```
       <div class="theme-info">
       <p>YOU CAN PUT LINKS HERE<?php printf(__( '%1$s by %2$s', 'decode' ), '<a href="http://ScottHSmith.com/projects/decode/">Decode</a>', 'Scott Smith') ?></p>
       </div><!-- .theme-info -->
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [rightsidehealth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rightsidehealth/)
 * (@rightsidehealth)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493718)
 * Thanks a ton. I’ll give this a try!
 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493819)
 * It seems to me that someone was successful in using a script tag in the footer,
   so I’m not sure why HTML wouldn’t work. I just echo the text into the element
   with PHP.
 *  [bruce.staples](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brucestaples/)
 * (@brucestaples)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493827)
 * I pasted html (just link anchor tags) into the footer on the theme customisation,
   it displayed as html text in the dialog box, but worked fine in the footer of
   the web pages.
 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493846)
 * That’s to be expected. The area in the Customizer is just a text area.
 *  Thread Starter [rightsidehealth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rightsidehealth/)
 * (@rightsidehealth)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493850)
 * Everyone,
    thanks so much for the suggestions, really helpful community on here.
   I was able to do it by making a child theme and putting the HTML in the footer.
   php folder.
 * 
 * Thanks again,
    Rick
 *  Thread Starter [rightsidehealth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rightsidehealth/)
 * (@rightsidehealth)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493851)
 * ha…anchor tags are allowed on here…my comment should read:
 * Out of curiosity…when I put tags in the customizer area, the < a > showed up 
   right on the page…was there something I could have done to let the theme know
   I was entering code not raw text? (but no sweat…the problem is solved).
 * Thanks again,
    Rick
 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493852)
 * Did you save the changes and then look at the page? It’s possible that the customizer
   kinda gave you an incorrect preview.
 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/html-in-footer/#post-4493853)
 * Actually, that’s just what it is. The Customizer doesn’t show the right thing.
   I’ve already tracked down the issue and fixed this in 2.9.1. Plus, it will update
   live as you type now!
 * To be clear, this feature still works, you just have to save and close the change
   the Customizer first.

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