want to make my footer containers look different than sidebar containers

  • Hello,

    I’ve started with Theme 2010 and have done significant tweaking with the style.css to customize my widget container for the sidebar. If I chose to use widgets in my footer it pulls the same widget container style.

    If I want to make my footer widget container to look different from those in the sidebar, what is the best way to do this? Do I create a new set of styles in my CSS file? Will I need to go into my footer.php and do some coding there?

    I was always under the assumption to do as little style editing in the PHP file…do most if not all in the CSS file (makes sense to me).

    Is what I want to accomplish manageable? Thanks in advance…

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  • Don’t edit the Twenty Ten theme. Your changes will be over-written the next time you upgrade WordPress. For this reason, it is recommended that you consider creating a child theme for your customisations. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.

    Thread Starter stickers11

    (@stickers11)

    Thanks Emsi, created the child theme as directed.
    Okay then, like I said I’d like to give the widgets I activate in the Footer a slightly different look than the widgets in the sidebar. Is it common for a lot of footer information to be hard coded in the footer.php?
    I may consider doing some of that, but would like to be be able to drop in a widget if necessary.

    Thread Starter stickers11

    (@stickers11)

    bump…
    and here’s a link to what i am working on.

    https://nwep.ca/wordpress/

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