This is all about the location of the footer widgets. If a suitable widget area exists then just drag the widgets into that area. If not, then you will need to enter a Footer Hook on the Footer Credits page, and only then will you be able to drag the widgets into the footer.
Here we include our recommendations as where to include the Footer Credits Widgets for each WordPress theme.
The answer is either to use an existing widget area, or to create a new widget area at the specified hook.
The list will grow over time…
WordPress Themes
- TwentyTen: either use the wp_footer hook to display the footer beneath the page area (using the white class if you have set a dark background color) or use the twentyten_credits hook with a few lines custom CSS to display the footer in the page footer on a white background
- TwentyEleven: use the twentyeleven_credits hook
- TwentyTwelve: use the twentytwelve_credits hook
- TwentyThirteen: use the twentythirteen_credits hook
- TwentyFourteen: use the twentyfourteen_credits hook
- TwentyFifteen: use the twentyfifteen_credits hook
- TwentySixteen: use the twentysixteen_credits hook
- TwentySeventeen: use the get_template_part_template-parts/footer/site hook
Popular Themes
- Atahualpa: in theme options create a new custom widget area to hold the footer
- CatchBox: use the catchbox_startgenerator_open hook
- Delicate: use the get_footer hook
- Graphene: use the graphene_footer hook
- Pagelines: use the pagelines_leaf hook
- Responsive: use existing Colophon Widget Area with 1 line of custom CSS to make the footer full width
- Suffusion: use existing Widget Area Above Footer
Genesis Child Themes
- Genesis Agency: use the genesis_footer hook
- Genesis Eleven40: use the genesis_footer hook
- Genesis Minimum: use existing custom footer widget area
- Genesis Minimum Brian: use existing custom footer widget area
- Genesis Minimum Lydia: use existing custom footer widget area
- Genesis Minimum Michele: use existing custom footer widget area
- Genesis Minimum Valerie: use existing custom footer widget area
