HTML in footer

Hi Rick,

first create a child theme of Decode https://codex.www.ads-software.com/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="https://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="https://ScottHSmith.com/projects/decode/">Decode</a>', 'Scott Smith') ?></p>
</div><!-- .theme-info -->

Thanks a ton. I’ll give this a try!

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.

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.

That’s to be expected. The area in the Customizer is just a text area.

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.

Out of curiosity…when I put tags in the customizer area, the “” 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

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

Did you save the changes and then look at the page? It’s possible that the customizer kinda gave you an incorrect preview.

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.