How to Edit the Footer on WordPress with Elementor
WordPress is a widely used and reliable content management system for millions of sites worldwide. It provides its users with a range of options which can be implemented with the help of plugins, themes, and widgets. It is a lot easier and more efficient than the conventional way of creating a WordPress website since it’s a feature-packed and easy-to-use page builder known as Elementor. The footer is one of the most significant parts of web design. In this tutorial, you will learn how to edit the footer on your WordPress website using Elementor.
Prerequisites
Before footers with Elementor, you need to make sure that the WordPress software employed on the site is updated and that you have Elementor implemented and activated. If you do not have Elementor installed on your site, go to the WordPress plugin directory, type “Elementor” into the search bar, and install it on your website.
Customizing the Footer with Elementor
Elementor has a footer layout that has already been signed, so adding a footer layout to your website is quite easy.
Here are the steps to edit your footer using Elementor:
Step 1: Accessing the Footer Settings
First, open your WordPress control panel and go to the tabs called “Pages.” Go to the particular site and select the part that you want to change, right-click the site, and from the context menu, choose the option “Edit with Elementor,” then click “Edit Template.” That will open the Elementor editor, and you can edit the footer of your page from there.
Step 2: Adding a Footer Template
To add Additional Templates Part 4 to the Elementor editor, right-click on the left-side panel and hover over “Add Template.” You’ll get another dropdown list containing different predefined analytical layouts. Go down the sub-topics until you find the “Footer” option, and click on it. You should know that after adding the Elementor page builder, it will also create a footer template.
Step 3: Customizing the Footer Content
Next, as you have included a footer template on your page, it will be high time for you to suit it to its purpose. In the case of Elementor, a widget editor is designed to be fully customizable, and the content of the footer section can be removed or inserted and repositioned with a simple drag-and-drop mechanism. To add new content, with your cursor placed in the footer area, go to the left pane and expand the “Widgets” dropdown, then drag the desired widget into the footer. When you hover your mouse over the widget, you can click on it and change the content on the fly in the right panel.
Some of the widgets you can use in the footer include:
- Text Editor: Enables you to insert and style your text in the footer section
- Image: Allows you to create images on your footer
- Social Icons: This enables you to input the URLs of your social network accounts
- Menu: Allows you to build a navigation for the website’s footer section
- Copyright: Assists in placing a copyright note or excluding one from the website
Step 4: Styling Your Footer
As with any component of your website, use the style settings in Elementor for the perfect footer look. You are provided with numerous styling settings within the right-hand panel where you can change all options. For example, it is possible to change the font style and size, as well as the color of the background, the width of the padding, and the border of the element.
Step 5: Preview
To save the current state of your assembly and any changes you make to it, you can use “Save” and “Preview,” as described below. The Save option saves the current state of your assembly and any changes you have so far.
In the footer of the Elementor editor, click on the Update button to apply your changes to the template. Lastly, choose your footer and click on the Preview icon so you can see the chosen footer on your website.
Footer Templates and Blocks
Elementor boasts of having a collection of footer templates from which you can select to achieve an excellent footer design without having to write any codes. All these templates are grouped into different categories like Business, Blog, and Entertainment, among others, to ease your search by filtering the desired style of your website.
Moreover, Elementor has footer widgets that are considered smaller units than footer sections, and they are designed to help you add more functionality as well as style to your footer. Examples of the footer blocks may be subscriptions to newsletters, links to social nets, phone numbers, and addresses.
Bill Yeager, Co-Owner of High Point SEO & Marketing in CT
