Unable to create links in footer widget section

Hi @ingeb1971

If you you’re using a Text widget in the footer section then you will need to manually enter the HTML to create a link. Which would be something like this:

<a href="https://www.fine-organized.nl/disclaimer/">Link Text Goes Here</a>

However if you would just like to have a list of links one below the other like the “Links” section in the footer of the Panoramic demo site – https://demo.outtheboxthemes.com/panoramic/. Then you can achieve that by using a Custom Menu widget. This will allow you to select the menu you would like to display in this area of the footer, so no manually linking of pages is necessary. To create a new menu for this just go to Appearance > Menus.

Hope this helps!

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by Out the Box.

Hi outthebox or is it Peter? ??

Thank you for your reply ??

I am not quite sure if I understood correctly what I needed to do.
I have copied your code into the SOE field and changed the ‘Link Text Goes Here” with “Disclaimer” but then the complete code is showing up like a sentence, instead of a link.

I have now made a new menu for the footer widget section, so I am pleased that the links now appear where I like them to ??
Only thing is that the words Disclaimer and Leveringsvoorwaarden are underlined.
Is there an easy way to have the links look like plain text, like all content in the footer area?

With regards to the SiteOrigin Editor button to create/remove links.
Is there a reason that the button to create or remove links is not working when you use SOE in the footer widget section? I would really love that functionality in that area because it is so easy to use ??

Sorry for all the new questions, but no hurry answering them ??

Greets,
Ingeborg

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by ingeb1971.

Hi @ingeb1971

Great to hear you’ve got your links set up in the footer. You can remove the underlines from them with the following custom CSS:

.site-footer-widgets .widget ul li a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

I just tried the SiteOrigin Editor widget in the footer area and the create / remove link functionality is working fine. I think what might have happened is perhaps you forgot to add the “https://” to the front of the URL you put in. When I left that off it didn’t work, so maybe that was it?

Awesome, thank you! The overlook in that section is great now that all content has a similar style (www.fine-organized.nl).

I have no idea what happened – maby it was the update – but somehow I can now create links in the footer widget section like in other areas on my website. Last week I tried out of curiousity and it was not possible, but … miracles happen every day YEAH.

I do not need them anymore because of the new social media footer widget and the adjustable menu for internal links. But always good to know if I ever want to change that part of my website.

Thak you very very much for answering all my questions and solving my issues. Much appreciated ??

Enjoy the weekend!

Greets,
Ingeborg