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In the category ‘Edit Menus’, click ‘Create a new Menu’. Give your footer menu a name (e.g. Footer menu). Be sure to assign your menu to the correct location where you want it displayed on your site or blog (Menu Settings – Theme locations). Click ‘Create Menu’.
Head over to ‘Appearance > Customize > Footer > Footer Bar’. We are assuming you’re using the Astra theme, just as we have in this article. If you are using any other theme, then the settings may look a little different. But you can still edit the footer via the WordPress customizer.
Where is the Footer menu?
If you are using Classic Menu for Office: Click the “View” tools under Menus tab and it brings up a drop-down menu, from which select the “Header_Footer” item an it will pop up a box. The “Footer” item is just at the middle of the box.
How do I edit the copyright footer in any WordPress theme?
Method 1: Change the Theme Settings Using the Customizer
- Log in to the WordPress dashboard.
- Go to Appearance > Customize.
- Look to see if you have a Footer option. If you do, select Footer > Bottom Bar.
- If you have the Copyright Area option. If you do, you can make changes to this footer as well.
Astra offers 4 widget layout for the footer. Once you select the 4 widget layout for the footer, you can set the widgets for each area under Appearance > Customize > Widgets > Footer Widget Area 1/2/3/4. You can choose WordPress default widgets or can add a third-party plugin to add widgets in the list.
Astra allows you to disable these through the Astra Meta box settings of the specific page or post. As you can see in the screenshot, you will find a meta box named Astra settings in your backend. You can disable the title, header or footer from here.
Which do you choose to create footer?
Go to Insert > Header or Footer. Choose from a list of standard headers or footers, go to the list of Header or Footer options, and select the header or footer that you want. Or, create your own header or footer by selecting Edit Header or Edit Footer. When you’re done, select Close Header and Footer or press Esc.
How do I edit the footer menu in WordPress?
Edit a footer menu in WordPress Select the footer menu to edit it. Add the pages, posts, links, categories and tags that you wish to showcase in the footer menu by clicking ‘Add to Menu’. If you don’t know how to do this, consult our tutorials on how to add items to a menu.
Customizing Bottom Bar The Bottom Bar display’s at the very bottom of your footer. It appears on every page of your website. Here you can edit the bar background color, text styles, and the social media icons color and size. You can also choose to enable or disable the Footer Credits in these setting by ticking or unticking the box.
Here you can edit the basic setting for the default Divi Footer. Once you are inside the Footer menu, the Theme Customiser will present you with five different options to set your styles. Note: the actual content for these settings is handled inside the widgets themselves.
How do I add a link to my footer in WordPress?
Enter a name that helps you easily identify this menu and then click on the ‘Create Menu’ button. Your menu is now ready and you can start adding links to it. Simply select the pages, posts, categories from the left column to add them to your menu.