Setting up Footer

The first area of theme footer is a widgetized section which you can displays them into 1-4 columns. This content can be organised in WordPress Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets

Setup Footer Sidebar

  1. First you have to enable it. Go to Appearance > Customize > Footer > General < Footer Sidebar Columns
  2. Select number of columns to display from 1-4

Setup Footer Sidebar Widgets

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  1. To add widgets, go to Appearance > Widgets
  2. You will find “Footer Widget” section. Simply drag and drop widgets you want from the left side boxes into the “Footer Sidebar”.

Setup Footer Colors

You can change footer background color, font color and etc. Go to Appearance > Customize > Footer > Colors once finish customising. Click “Save All Changes” button.

Setup Copyright Bar 

Below the widgetized area of footer is copyright bar where you can add your  copyright text including link to it. Go to Appearance > Customize > Footer > Copyright 

The go to top option if you enable it. It will display arrow up button when visitor click on it. It will redirect to the top of page.

Setup MailChimp Subscription

First you have to install MailChimp plugin for WordPress then you have to setup your MailChimp account. Then setup MailChimp Form via WordPress Dashboard > MailChimp for WP > Forms. Then customise form, for example you can use below code to display demo site MailChimp form.


<div class="subscribe_tagline">
Get the recent popular stories straight into your inbox
</div>

<div class=”subscribe_form”>
<p>
<input type=”email” name=”EMAIL” placeholder=”Email” required />
</p>

<p>
<input type=”submit” value=”Sign up” />
</p>
</div>

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Next step. You have to enter your MailChip form ID in Theme Setting > General > MailChimp Form ID.

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Once you setup MailForm successfully. Please also make sure you enable it on footer via Appearance > Customize > Footer > General. You can also customise its background options there.

Setup Footer Photostream

Before footer area. There is an option to enable animated grid photostream using your Instagram or Flickr account. Please checkout this article to see instructions.

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