Hi Kathryn, thank you for your answer!
I used Sacredpath’s custom CSS and it worked perfectly, the widget is open by default and the “+” sign is gone ??
Of course I didn’t edit the code itself but used Jetpack’s Custom CSS module.
Right after, I followed the demo you linked and inserted a social menu.
At that point, I had my turned-into-footer widget, and my actual footer, one on top of the other. The searchbar was in the widget, while the social icons were in the footer.
So what I did is throught the “Editor” interface (the menu right under “Custom CSS” in the WP navigator), I entered the footer.php file, took the code responsible for displaying the social icons, and inserted it into the sidebar.php file.
This is what I transferred :
<?php
if ( has_nav_menu( ‘social’ ) ) {
wp_nav_menu( array(
‘theme_location’ => ‘social’,
‘container_class’ => ‘menu-social’,
‘menu_class’ => ‘clear’,
‘link_before’ => ‘<span class=”screen-reader-text”>’,
‘link_after’ => ‘</span>’,
‘depth’ => 1,
) );
}
?>
Then, I used a line I found on the www.ads-software.com forums to hide the now redundent footer. Here it is:
.site-footer {
display: none;
}
My site actually works and looks fine. My questions are:
- Was it ok to simply pick and place the social icons’ code as I did, or was it barbaric?
- Since I didn’t use the Custom CSS interface to change the social icons’ place, is this change going to be erased the next time WP updates?
Thank you very much for your time and patience! ??
Lucas
