Thank you for your quick response batharoy! I tired that and it doesn’t seem to work.
Here is exactly what I did…
-Copied the footer.php file to my desktop from the original theme.
-Went into my child theme, created a folder called “parts” and uploaded the footer.php that I downloaded there.
-Edited the footer.php to add that line of code before the closing </footer> tag.
It just doesn’t show up. Any thoughts on what I could be doing wrong? I originally tired uploaded the footer.php file in the same folder as my style.css, but thought maybe it had to be in a separate folder, no luck creating the parts folder and trying it that way.
Here’s what it looks like right now:
<footer id="containerfooter" class="footerclass" role="contentinfo">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
<?php global $virtue; if(isset($virtue['footer_layout'])) { $footer_layout = $virtue['footer_layout']; } else { $footer_layout = 'fourc'; }
if ($footer_layout == "fourc") {
if (is_active_sidebar('footer_1') ) { ?>
<div class="span3 footercol1">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 1", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('footer_2') ) { ?>
<div class="span3 footercol2">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 2", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('footer_3') ) { ?>
<div class="span3 footercol3">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 3", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('footer_4') ) { ?>
<div class="span3 footercol4">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 4", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php } else if($footer_layout == "threec") {
if (is_active_sidebar('footer_third_1') ) { ?>
<div class="span4 footercol1">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 1", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('footer_third_2') ) { ?>
<div class="span4 footercol2">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 2", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('footer_third_3') ) { ?>
<div class="span4 footercol3">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 3", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php } else {
if (is_active_sidebar('footer_double_1') ) { ?>
<div class="span6 footercol1">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 1", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php if (is_active_sidebar('footer_double_2') ) { ?>
<div class="span6 footercol2">
<?php dynamic_sidebar(__("Footer Column 2", "virtue")); ?>
</div>
<?php }; ?>
<?php } ?>
</div>
<div class="footercredits clearfix">
<?php if (has_nav_menu('footer_navigation')) :
?><div class="footernav clearfix"><?php
wp_nav_menu(array('theme_location' => 'footer_navigation', 'menu_class' => 'footermenu'));
?></div><?php
endif;?>
<p><?php if(isset($virtue['footer_text'])) { $footertext = $virtue['footer_text'];} else {$footertext = '[copyright] [the-year] [site-name] [theme-credit]';} echo do_shortcode($footertext); ?></p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="custom-link">designed and edited by <a href="https://www.gonyomedia.com" rel="home">Gonyo Media</a></div>
</footer>
<?php wp_footer(); ?>