Footer text disappeared

  • Hi there, in my footer I have a year of copyright. I tried updating this from 2019 to 2020 in the backend: theme editor – footer.php.

    It gave error: Unable to communicate back with site to check for fatal errors, so the PHP change was reverted. You will need to upload your PHP file change by some other means, such as by using SFTP.

    No probs I thought, so I used filezilla to ftp the footer.php file from the theme folder. Downloaded it, made the change in the file, saved, then uploaded it and now on the homepage in the left bottom the year is not displayed. If I go to any other page of my site it is displayed.

    If I refresh the homepage I do notice it displays very very briefly and then disappears.

    Jeeez, I thought this was straight forward guys, sorry for bothering you with this. What did I screw up this time?

    Thank you for your patience…

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  • @ajphoto

    The webpage output contains the following as your footer:

    <footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo" style="bottom: -36.079999923706055px;">

    The issue you are facing is because the style parameter is pushing the footer are 36 pixels off the bottom of the page and therefore hiding it from view. Remove the style parameter entirely and see if it now appears in your browser.

    Thread Starter ajphoto

    (@ajphoto)

    Thanks for that super prompt reply.

    I opened the footer.php but cannot find this bit of code.

    Which file would I find it in? And do I just complete remove:

    <footer id=”colophon” class=”site-footer” role=”contentinfo” style=”bottom: -36.079999923706055px;”>

    Or do I change -36.079999923706055px to 0px?

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