Footer question

You need to do 2 things

1. Make a child theme
2. Add footer widgets

Google this “twenty twelve footer widgets”, some people already written the whole tutorials about it, some even have the child theme ready for you.

Yes, definitely do not modify theme files directly – use a child theme for that kind of changes.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Here is how I added a footer with three widget areas to my own Twenty Twelve Child Theme:
https://mywordpress.sterndata.com/2012/10/new-theme-twenty-twelve/

And if you wish, I would gladly make a Child Theme for you (no charge, of course) with those already there.

Thanks to all for your help – in the end I went with the one lessjosepho recommended:

https://mywordpress.sterndata.com/2012/10/new-theme-twenty-twelve/

Brilliant – just what I was looking for.

Thanks1

Yes, that guy did a nice job putting that together.

Here are some adjustments I have made so the left and center widget areas are the same size with plenty of room and yet stay out from under the Sidebar area:

#footerwidgets {
	width:100%;
}
#footerwidgets p {
	padding-bottom: .5em;
}
#footerwidgets li, #footerwidgets p  {
	padding-bottom: .5em;
	font-size:80%;
	line-height:1.1em;
}
#footer-left {
	width:35%;
	float:left;
	padding-right:.5%;
}
#footer-middle {
	width:35%;
	float:left;
	padding-left:.5%;
	padding-right:3.5%;
}
#footer-right {
	width:25%;
	float:right;
	padding-left:.5%;
}

You can use any percentages you wish there as long as they all (including padding) add up to 100%, and you might try something like 30/40/30 since you are not showing a Sidebar.

Hi, I have a problem of adding more than one widget to the widget areas. It seems there is a maximum length that can be accepted. So if I add more than one widget in each section it jumps over to the next column e.g.

WidgetCol1 WidgetCol2 WidgetCol3

Name Social Media Icons Newsletter Subscribe
Adress ***I Want Posts Here***
Email

So if I then add the ‘Latest posts’ widget with 6 news stories into WidgetCol2 it will actually end up underneath WidgetCol1 area – not staying in Col2?
It seems their is a maximum lenght of lines ,then widget breaks and I cant control the column it is supposed to be in?

PS CSS novice

Oh dear, my graphic didnt work sorry – hope you get the idea.

Col1 Col2 Col3 are the widgetised areas across the page

Col1 contains Text Box
Col2 contains Newsletter Subscription + Social Media Icons
Col3 contains Email Information

I want to add LatestPosts under column 2 as well, but adding the posts widget under column 2 breaks it and it appears under Col1

Looks like he changed his permalink structure without setting up redirects.

Here is an updated link to his blog post: https://mywordpress.sterndata.com/new-theme-twenty-twelve/

(and thank you for sharing here!)