Site Footer
This WordPress theme has an optional, cream-and-gold colored, site-specific footer. Adding content to the Footer interface makes it appear; otherwise, it’s off by default. It can be accessed in the back-end WordPress dashboard sidebar by clicking Site Options. Once in the Site Options interface, you’ll choose the second tab for Footer settings:
Under Footer Content, you can enter information about your department. It’s a text box, so you can add links and even small images. On the front end of your website, the name of your site will be shown above this box. It is automatic and cannot be changed without changing the name of your site.
Below this there are several fields for Phone Number, Email and a variety of social media platforms. Each of these fields, and the Supplemental Contact Information field below, shows when you fill it in, but only if Footer Content has text too. The email address will be a clickable link and the Social Links will display as icons.
There is one additional available text field named Supplemental Contact Information that can be used if needed. It will display below the social icons and contact info.
Once your content editing is complete, you’ll need to click the Update button on the top, right side under Publish to save your changes.
Footer options for mega menu sites
Sites using the mega menu theme can change parts of the dark Wake Forest footer at the bottom of every page: the link columns, the logo, the social media icons, and the Contact Us link. These settings are in Site Options, in the Mega Menu box, under Customize Footer.
Switch Customize Footer on to see them. Each part of the footer has two choices. Default keeps the standard Wake Forest version, and Custom uses your site’s own. If you choose Custom but leave it empty, the footer uses the default, so nothing disappears by accident.
Footer logo
Choose Custom to upload your site’s own logo and, if you like, a link for it. The footer is dark, so use a light or reversed version with a transparent background. If you leave the link empty, the logo links to your site’s homepage.
Social media icons
Custom shows your site’s own accounts, taken from the social media fields on the Footer tab of Site Options described above. If none of those are filled in, the footer shows Wake Forest’s accounts.
If your site also shows the cream-and-gold site footer, your accounts already appear there, so Default is usually the better choice here.
Contact Us link
Choose Custom and pick a page on your site to send the footer’s Contact Us link there, instead of to the university’s contact page.
Link columns
The footer has four link columns, Column One through Column Four. To change one, first build a menu for it under Appearance → Menus. Then set that column to Custom, choose your menu, and type a heading. If you leave the heading blank, the column keeps its Wake Forest heading.
Footer HTML
The Footer HTML box replaces the entire footer with your own code, and hides all of the settings below it. It is there for sites that need a completely different footer, but pasted code does not update when the university footer changes, so we recommend the settings above. If you would like help moving away from a custom HTML footer, contact the WordPress team.
When you are done, click Update on the top right, under Publish. Here is the Divinity School footer set up this way, with its own first three columns, its own social accounts, and a Contact Us link to its own page:
