tombrew123

Hi,

That code worked an absolute treat so big thanks for that! The reason I have the footer.php is because I edited the original to include my copyright and disclaimer page. I thought when the parent theme updates I will lose these changes?

Thanks,

Tom.

Okay, I just made the same edit in the parent theme to double check my coding was correct and it is. This must mean that my child theme is not linking my footer.php file to the child theme?

So how do I get the child theme to use the customised child footer.php that I have created?

I have uploaded it via file zilla like I did with the child theme so I’m not too sure if the child theme is looking for the updated file?

Again, any help is hugely appreciated!

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!