Today’s question is about customizing your footer and a lot of the answer will depend on your theme. Remember that you can leave any questions you have in the comments below and I will try and answer them here.

How do I customize the footer, such that I can have a left justified, a centered, and a right justified text? Does this require simple html, or is there something different that you do?

As I stated above a lot of this will depend on the theme you are using and any options that are written into it. There are themes that use widgets in the footer and will allow you to create multiple widgets there.

Flexibility the theme I am using here currently allows that and it would be easy to just add the settings for 3 widgets and them drop your HTML into a text widget in each of the spots.

Most don’t so lets look at the easiest way I know of to add that to your footer with HTML.

Adding tables with regular HTML would be the easiest way. You will need to go to your theme files and edit footer.php on most themes.

Any time you are editing your theme files it is important to have a back up first. Whether you use an editor and do it on your computer you need a back up of your file just in case what you do totally messes up your theme.

You can do it in your dashboard by going to appearance – editor.

themeeditor

Then select your footer from the list on the right.

footer

At his point it becomes very theme specific (and one of the reasons to have a back up). Add your table with your HTML where you want it to display and save your file.

If you are using a free theme you may not have the right to remove links that are included such as theme credit and are violating your license if you do.

Check your display and if it looks the way you like and you did not break anything you are done.

Hope this answers your question. Questions and comments are always welcomed below.

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