Add Link To A Custom WordPress Footer
One of the easiest ways to customize WordPress is to add links to the footer of the themes template. You could add the link to any website you want and if your blog is part of your website adding a link to the homepage of your site will help your search engine rankings as well. This is a little WordPress Guide that will help interlink your website.
First make sure you can edit your theme’s footer.php file by making in writable in your hosting account. Login to your hosting account, browse to your blogs folder, the wp-content folder and then the themes folder. Look for your current theme and open that folder. Change the file permissions to at least the footer.php file to 777 or 666.
Login to your blog, click Presentation, then Theme Editor, look for the Footer file on the right and click it to open it in the editor. First copy all the content in this file and save it as a text file in Notepad on your computer. That way if you mess things up you can just paste the original code back in to start over.
Now look for the links that are already in place, for the default theme that will look like this:
<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> is proudly powered by
<a href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a>
We want to add a link right after this code, Place your mouse right after the original code and hit the space bar once and add your new link code. Or you could just copy the original code and paste it right after it and then edit the URL, the anchor text and even place some text in front of it like this:
<a href=”http://wordpress.org/”>WordPress</a> More Optional Text <a href=”http://YourWebsite.com”>Anchor Text</a>
Now Click Update File, open your site and marvel at your handy work!
If you are using a free theme that someone wrote and it has a link to their website in it please leave the link intact. After all that is a small price to pay for what they have provided you.
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Thanks for the excellent tutorial. I gave it a thumbs up at Bumbzee and I digg it.
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Thank you for a clear and easy-to-follow explanation!
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Thanks for the excellent tutorial.
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Thank you so much. I have been wondering how to do this. I am still searching for a way to add stuff like mybloglog and such to the footer of the page instead of on my sidebar, any tips?
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Gene, you could probably add the script or code or anything directly into the footer.php file.
However you may need to resize the footer area to accommodate the size of the items you want to place in it. And also format the items you add to be in the position you want.
Theme modifications like this are hard to explain in a post let alone a comment because of all the different themes and how they are coded.
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Thanks for the excellent tutorial.
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Thank’s I never could do this before
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Thanks
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Great Tutorial! Even a newbie could follow!
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my footer code looks like this… how do I change it?
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Hello, Thank you for great tutorial.. I have a question..
I want the ‘title’ of each single post to appear in the page’s footer.
For this, i pasted the code:
” rel=”bookmark” title=”">
in the footer..
The following happens: I get a link to my sixth post (in every footer).
The same code is present for the (title) and just before the comments block – but it works fine there.
I am unable to find/solve the problem – could you please help me out.
Thanks & Regards.
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I Pasted this code:
(it did not appear correct in the earlier message above).
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The reason you can’t find any info about putting the title of the post in the footer is because it is probably very difficult to do.
You would have to set it up for different “What If” situations. Remember this one footer.php file is used an all pages and posts on the blog so what if it is a page with multiple posts on it. There is more code needed to make this work the way you want, of which I don’t know I suggest looking at http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page.
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The post was very informative, but the video made it so much easier to learn. Thanks!
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This information is useful. My blog is very difficult to customize fully as it is in xml. If anyone knows any resources on editing pages in xml code I would love to hear from you.
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great video and post!!! Thanks!
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Good video….i like it
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Although this is very basic thing which we should know but is it allowed to delete wordpress link at the footer and to include our own? Isn’t counted as illegal thing?
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Jeff Replied:
March 14th, 2009 at 7:59 am
Roger you could remove the link to WordPress.org but should keep any links to themes author intact on the footer of a free WordPress theme. Keeping the authors links is considered the price of using the theme.
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I have been reading some snippet on SEO and came to know that we should place our links and keywords in proper structure i.e something on header and footer etc. I was looking for updating footer in wordpress and here your handy blog is on my screen. Thanks for sharing. It is good to read actual post and comments here.
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You would have to set it up for different “What If” situations. Remember this one footer.php file is used an all pages and posts on the blog so what if it is a page with multiple posts on it. There is more code needed to make this work the way you want, of which I don’t know
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Thanks for great post! It really made it easy and quick to learn! Just in time for me! Cheers
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Great tutorial. I think this is great for SEO too. Big G is starting to recognize links down the side and not pay much attention to them anymore. Footer links can be an asset to SEO. Thanks again! Dan
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This is great. Nicely explained. Just the thing I was looking for. Wanted to add link to my footer too. Thanks for sharing the information. This is very useful.
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@Boston web design, Are you sure? Do these footer links help in SEO? How can we use them to support SEO? I’ll be very grateful if you can send me information on this.
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Hi
What a great info. I think that footer is hard to be edited. However,It is not hard anymore after I read this post.
Have a nice blogging.
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Its really clear and to the point explanation. Really good for beginner to understand it. Thanks for sharing.
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Nice post. One of the best tutorials I’ve seen lately. Your explanation is very good. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Keep up the good work.
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I really want to add a footer on my wordpress blog. thank you very much for this!
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Is it possible that the placement of footer links be part of the option of WP? Is there any plug-in to do this thing? or shall we stick on footer.php editing methods?
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Jeff Replied:
May 30th, 2009 at 1:46 pm
The footer links are theme specific so no way to control them from within the WP dashboard, unless the specific themes footer was “widgetized” like a sidebar.
I know of no plugins but really editing the theme is not really that hard and how often does it need done anyway?
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Nice information. I am about to relaunch my site with blog and forums and I think it is a cool way to interlink them.
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Thanks for sharing the post because I forgot the exact place where I should edit it. There are many files in the theme and I was checking others.
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I am about to relaunch my site with blog and forums and I think it is a cool way to interlink them.
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great tutorial, now i know a little bit more about worldpress, cool
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