mattyn1990

@mercime i done everything that you said above, i went into the appearance > widgets area of wordpress and it still said i had 4 widgets.

in my child theme folder i gave these folders:
activity
blogs
forum
groups
images
members

and these files
custom.css
footer.php
functions.php
index.php
leftsidebar.php
page.php
screenshot.png
sidebar-footer.php
single.php
style.css

the leftsidebar is controlling the left hand side bar that has now been added to the theme.

sorry if im being a pain this is just doing my head in and i could not for the life of me figure it out. I had an old theme on and that had only 1 widget area for the whole of the footer but i changed to this one because i liked the look of it better (starting to wish i didnt now)

if i was to start all over again from BF-default file and create the child theme from scratch what files would i need to take over with me ? (i had someone else make this one, not very good)

ok i guessed it had four dont think i worded it correctly. What im wanting to do is turn all four widget areas into one big area and then remove the prowdly powered by wordpress & buddypress at the bootom of the page.

Any ideas on what code i would have top use and what files i would have to change or add?

This is the code i have got so far (i copied this from the parent file BP-default)

</div> <!– #container –>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_after_container’ ); ?>
<?php do_action( ‘bp_before_footer’ ); ?>

<div id=”footer”>
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘first-footer-widget-area’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘second-footer-widget-area’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘third-footer-widget-area’ ) || is_active_sidebar( ‘fourth-footer-widget-area’ ) ) : ?>
<div id=”footer-widgets”>
<?php get_sidebar( ‘footer’ ); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

<div id=”site-generator” role=”contentinfo”>
<?php do_action( ‘bp_dtheme_credits’ ); ?>
<p><?php printf( __( ‘Copyright ? 2013 DriftedMass.co.uk | All Rights Reserved’),?></p>
</div>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_footer’ ); ?>

</div><!– #footer –>

<?php do_action( ‘bp_after_footer’ ); ?>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>

</html>

How do i edit this to give me one footer area where the text will show and where i can also add widgets?

Do i have to make changes or create any other files to go alongside this for it to work properly?