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URL to the page in question: http://iracknet.com
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  • #24100
    kevin davies
    Participant

    Hi Bill,

    Its been a while since we last spoke. I trust you are well.

    Could I ask your opinion on this issue please? I am struggling to get the footer to appear on certain areas using the sidebar widget you recommended when I wanted to have multiple home pages.

    The pages that are missing the footer are: News and FAQ

    Could you take a look and let me know if there’s an easy solution please?

    I did originally have a link in there for myself and org themes but they have since replaced both 🙁

    Thanks.
    Kevin

    #24101
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Hello Kevin,

    All is well here. Hope things are going well for you across the pond.

    I’m guessing there is something going on with the footer widget area and archive pages. It looks like the FAQ and News are both types of archives. My best guess from the front end of the site is that the footer sidebar (or the widgets in it) are set to be visible in the single view but not the archive.

    Check on that and see if that doesn’t bring back the missing widgets.

    Let me know if that doesn’t do the trick.

    Take care,
    Bill

    #24103
    kevin davies
    Participant

    Hi Bill,

    Yes all good over this way thank you. Winter is kicking in now though so its getting cold and generally dark by 4:30/5pm

    I have checked and it is set for singular and archive. Screenshot attached. I also added some more areas to the condition group but that hasn’t helped either. Strange one.

    Appreciate the quick response.

    Thanks,
    Kev

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    #24105
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Let’s make sure that it’s somehow related to this plugin. Could you temporarily deactivate it and check those two pages to see if the footer shows up then? Then turn it back on and let me know what you discover.

    Thanks,
    Bill

    #24106
    kevin davies
    Participant

    plugin deactivated right now. Still don’t have the footer. However, the footer is built with a page and the page content is loaded with a page content widget into the specified sidebar. Does that make sense?

    #24107
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Something is making the footer_sidebar return that it has no widgets in it on those pages. Here’s the code that loads it in the footer:

    
    <?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'footer_sidebar' ) ) : ?>
    			
    	<div id="footer-sidebar" class="clearfix">
    				
    		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'footer_sidebar' ); ?>
    				
    	</div><!-- #footer-sidebar -->
    			
    <?php endif ; // is_active_sidebar ?>
    

    What you could try doing is editing the footer.php file (Appearance section in your dashboard and then edit). Then find the section above and remove the first and last line so that it looks like this:

    
    <div id="footer-sidebar" class="clearfix">
    				
    	<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'footer_sidebar' ); ?>
    				
    </div><!-- #footer-sidebar -->
    

    Let’s see what comes up there with the conditional statement removed.

    #24109
    kevin davies
    Participant

    that seems to have made the footer area a tiny bit larger but still doesn’t show the content. I’m just worried I’m misleading you Bill because the footer is made up with a page and has nothing to do with the original footer which has been removed with some CSS you gave me a while ago.

    #24111
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Would you mind letting me login and take a look? You can mark the post here as private and I’ll be the only one who can see it.

    #24112
    kevin davies
    Participant
    This reply has been marked as private.
    #24114
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Thanks Kevin,

    It looks like the footer sidebar is actually empty. Try adding a copy of the widgets to that sidebar (it’s last in the list on your widgets screen) and see if that won’t do the trick.

    Let me know if you have trouble still.

    Bill

    #24115
    kevin davies
    Participant

    Yes I have tried that before and it ends up rather crushed like you can see (ive left it in for now so you can see what I mean).

    The other way seemed to work great as part of home section 10 until I noticed it wasn’t working on those pages.

    Thanks,
    kevin

    #24116
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    I understand now. You can add this to the Custom CSS box in the Advanced tab of the theme options page to make that widget (that has your other widgets in it) full width:

    
    #footer-sidebar .widget.home-page-block {
    	width: 100%;
    }
    

    See if that doesn’t keep them from getting squished.

    #24117
    kevin davies
    Participant

    A genius and a gentlemen. Thanks very much Bill. Now I may be tired but which one do I remove to stop the footer duplication now? I’ve tried removing the new home 10 sidebar content but it seems to be still in there. Other than that the new footer area looks much better, compact, and the colours are coming through properly.

    Thanks as always. Kevin.

    #24118
    kevin davies
    Participant

    All sorted thanks Bill. Appreciate your help. Enjoy the rest of your day!

    Kind Regards,

    Kevin

    #24119
    Bill Robbins
    Moderator

    Fantastic news Kevin. Now you can get some rest in peace 🙂

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