trying to alter/insert text into the footer in Sandbox theme

  • Hello all – I’m new to websites, WordPress, CSS, basically all of this.

    I’m using the Sandbox theme on my site: obsoletist.net. I’ve created a child theme and made small modifications.

    One thing I can’t figure out. In my footer, instead of what’s there now, I’d like to have two things.
    Left-justified, I’d like to have “Powered by WordPress & Sandbox.”
    Right-justified, I’d like to have this: “(?) obsoletist.”

    The justifying I think I get; what I can’t figure out is how to add text. Can I even do that in my child style.css file, or do i need to edit footer.php in the theme itself?

    Any help or points in the right direction are very much appreciated. ??

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  • Thread Starter kimberly_g

    (@kimberly_g)

    Well, update to say I got this almost solved. I edited the footer.php file to this:

    <div id="footer">
    Powered by <span id="generator-link"><a href="https://www.ads-software.com/" title="<?php _e( 'WordPress', 'Sandbox.' ) ?> " rel="generator"><?php _e( ' WordPress', 'Sandbox.' ) ?></a></span> &

    <span id="theme-link"><a href="https://www.plaintxt.org/themes/sandbox/" title="<?php _e( 'Sandbox', 'Sandbox.' ) ?>" & rel="designer"><?php _e( 'Sandbox.', 'Sandbox.' ) ?></a></span>
    <div id="footer">
      (?) obsoletist.
  </div><!-- #footer -->

</div><!-- #wrapper .hfeed -->

<?php wp_footer() ?>

</body>
</html>

    That got what I wanted on two lines, both right-justified. I’m still trying to figure out how to left-justify one part & right-justify the other all on one line. Just in case anyone’s interested. ??

    I don’t think it’s a good idea to have two ID’s named “footer”— that is bound to cause trouble at some point.

    Maybe call the second one “footer_right”
    <div id=”footer_right”>my text to float right here</div>

    and then in your stylesheet.css add something like this:
    #footer_right {float: right;}

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