Footer disappeared

I’ve made some minor manual changes on style.css

If you think that’s what caused the issue, do you have a backupcopy of the style.css file from prior to you made changes? yes? upload that one?

I’ve tried restoring it to the default (original) CSS but it did not seem to have any effect.

Try a few basic troubleshooting steps:
– Clear your browser’s cookies and all cache.
– If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the unedited default, core-bundled Theme (such as Twenty Fourteen) for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue.

OK just did. I still have no footer.

Do you have a footer.php file in your theme directory?

Yes (I haven’t touched it). It reads :

<?php
/**
* The template for displaying the footer
*
* Contains footer content and the closing of the #main and #page div elements.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Fourteen
* @since Twenty Fourteen 1.0
*/
?>

</div><!– #main –>

<footer id=”colophon” class=”site-footer” role=”contentinfo”>

<?php get_sidebar( ‘footer’ ); ?>

<div class=”site-info”>
<?php do_action( ‘twentyfourteen_credits’ ); ?>
“><?php printf( __( ‘Proudly powered by %s’, ‘twentyfourteen’ ), ‘WordPress’ ); ?>
</div><!– .site-info –>
</footer><!– #colophon –>
</div><!– #page –>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>

and what does your index.php file look like? Can you turn on WP_Debug?

Open wp-config.php and write define( ‘WP_DEBUG’, true ); and refresh the page to check for any errors you may be receiving.

if you have a footer.php file there, and you’re not getting any errors…have you tried deactivating all of your plugins??

OK I’ve set the variable to “true”. What am I looking for?

if you have a footer.php file there, and you’re not getting any errors…have you tried deactivating all of your plugins??

This seems to have done it, thanks. I’ve reactivated plugins one by one and identified the cause of the problem to be a particular plugin which I will find an alternative for.