Footer area & letter size

Do you mean the grey footer area or the white area beneath?

If grey, then go into widgets and add text widgets to the footer and edit them.

If white (below the grey), then you need to edit footer.php.

It is the grey area, thanks ElectricFeet.

I still have to learn to use the edit function in Mozilla to change values. I don’t know if the changes will mantain in the page or not. I will keep on trying. By the way, where can I fing footer.php?

And about the other question, do you know how to link the text in that footer area to another page in my website?

You don’t need to use Mozilla (I presume you’re talking about the “inspect” functionality that, yes, is only temporary).

For the grey footer, from the WordPress dashboard you need to select Appearance > Widgets > Footer Widget Area One. Open it with the little arrow. If there isn’t a text widget in there already, then drag the text widget (on the left of the screen) into the Footer Widget Area One box. Then open the text widget you just dragged, type your text, then save. You should now see your new text in the grey footer area of your site.

For the white footer area, you need to select Appearance > Editor and then edit footer.php. But you should only do this if you know what you are doing. You could mess things up badly by a misplaced punctuation mark somewhere. And once you’ve overwritten the text, it’s not a newbie job to get it back again.

Hi ElectricFeet, thanks again for your help.

But, what I need to know is … is there any way to create a link from the text I put in the footer area in order to link that text to a new page?

My intention is to put all the “legal stuff” there, you know what I mean. As a simple example, the same like Back to top goes to the top of the page so “Legal stuff” goes to a new page with the information of my company, etc.

And second question was … how can I resize the text in that footer area (I am allways talking about the grey one)?

What happens to me is that I have an enormous letter size in that area not compensed with the design of the rest of the page so it doesnt look quite well.

I think both things have to be solved by editing something.php but I don’t know which files I have to edit.

As a newbie in wordpress I understand that I will have to read a good manual to change php files and understand what I am doing. I decided to use this theme because of its design that I like it so much thanks to the sliders and “cercle images” in the front page. Now I am thinking maybe I should look for an easier theme with nothing to edit. What do you think?

Thanks a lot for your help and greetings from Barcelona.

P.D. I will send to you the link of my page when finnished, Customizr or not. ??

Hi Eduard,
Yes, you can put links in the grey area. Follow my instructions to go into widgets and add text widgets to the footer. When you edit them, you can put any html you like in there, including links. For instance, on my site, you can click in the (grey) footer to go to a google map.

Just click Appearance > Widgets to go in and edit them. Click the little down arrows in “Footer Area Widget One/Two/Three”; drag a text widget across and start linking in HTML.

You don’t need to edit phps at all if you only want to change the grey area. Only the white area needs php editing.

As to using an easier theme, I couldn’t say, as this is the only one I’ve ever used. I’m a newbie too–new to html, CSS and WordPress(!); started about a month ago–and have managed reasonably well with this theme.

Good luck!

Thanks so much ElectricFeet. Been struggling with this like crazy. Huge help!

Problem: when I enter HTML in the text widget within Footer Area One, it shows up “as is” — as html code– in the grey footer. I was able to overcome this for links to legal pages by converting the html to words. I am not able to change the color however. Any guidance? Thanks. I am a total noobe.

Can you link to your site and tell us what you would like to change?

Hi ElectricFeet, and thanks very much for your response. Unfortunately, I cannot provide a link to my website just yet, as it is still unpublished. All I am trying to accomplish at this point, however, is change the dark-grey footer color.

In a former post , if I understood correctly, you explained one can integrate HTML code for “Footer Areas 1, 2, and 3” by way of a text widget. I attempted to do this, but the code merely displayed in the dark-grey footer as it was typed and did not covert.

I am certainly no HTML expert. It is entirely possible I used the wrong code (I found it online). If someone knows the proper HTML code that I can integrate into the text widget so that it will convert properly, or the CSS code I can use in the “custom css” field, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks again for your help. ??

You need the following CSS:

footer#footer {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #123123;
}

Change #123123 to whatever colour you want. it will work in the Custom CSS panel.

You are awesome! Thanks so much! Really appreciate it.

Hi ElectricFeet, thanks for the code to change the footer color. I used it and changed my footer to white, but now the links in the widget are barely showing up – can you tell me how to specify link colors for the grey footer area?

My site is https://www.thenakedlifecoach.com and I’m using the custom menu widget to add some links to the (formerly grey) footer area.

Thanks much!

Nadine

Hi again, did you see this Snippet?

Always a good idea to skim through all the Snippets so that you know what is there on a plate for you.

It might alternatively be possible to style the widget text by inserting some HTML in each text field.

[Refresh] Ah – I see that you have found a solution.

Yes, thank you chappie ??