Permanently edit Twenty Fifteen Footer

  • Some months ago I figured out how to edit the footer in my Twenty Fifteen website. Godaddy just did a WP update of some sort, and my footer reverted back to the Proudly Powered by WordPress default footer. Now I can’t even remember how I edited the theme. But, I would rather find a solution to customizing the footer in a way that will not revert to default every time there is an update. Is there a way to do this? I searched for plugins but did not see any. Thanks in advance!

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  • Hello,
    While editing theme, you have to use the Child theme approach. If you edit the parent theme directly, the edited content will roll back after the theme update. So make the child theme and make the changes on it. Editing parent theme is bad practice too.
    Hope, u know me. If you have further more question to ask or need more help feel free to ask.
    Thanks

    Thread Starter drdebmv

    (@drdebmv)

    Thanks for such a quick response Kafleg – yes I do know that the overall solution to things that wont change with theme updates is to use a Child Theme, and I have one with many other things in it. I am just not sure how to incorporate code into it that will build a footer and override footer code in main theme. Thanks for any further advice you can offer! Best –

    Its simple, copy the footer.php file from parent theme and pasted it on the child theme. And edit the child theme footer.php. And activate the child theme. If you are using child theme, just paste the footer.php code on child theme. It will work for you. If not work, let me know.
    Thanks

    Thread Starter drdebmv

    (@drdebmv)

    Thanks so much Kafleg – I will try that! And will either get back to you here, or mark as resolved! ??

    Thread Starter drdebmv

    (@drdebmv)

    Hi Kafleg – I know its been a long time but I have just gotten around to trying to follow your advice above and am still having trouble. Here is the code I pasted into my child theme from the 2015 theme footer and then edited. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? It still shows the main theme footer.

    * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Fifteen
 * @since Twenty Fifteen 1.0
 */
?>

	</div><!-- .site-content -->

	<footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo">
		<div class="site-info">
			<?php
				/**
				 * Fires before the Twenty Fifteen footer text for footer customization.
				 *
				 * @since Twenty Fifteen 1.0
				 */
				do_action( 'twentyfifteen_credits' );
			?>
			Deborah J. Mayhew & Associates <a href="mailto:[email protected]">&nbsp;[email protected]</a>
		</div><!-- .site-info -->
	</footer><!-- .site-footer -->

</div><!-- .site -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

</body>
</html>

    Thank you! ??

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