Displaying shortcode in footer
Your shortcode function is all wrong, should be: function copyright_shortcode() { return date(“Y”); }
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How can I load certain JavaScripts only on blog pages?
Properly enqueue the scripts, via callback hooked into the appropriate hook Use contextual conditional tags to determine when to enqueue For example, you’d do something like: function wpse135482_enqueue_scripts() { // Only enqueue this script on single post pages if ( is_singular( ‘post’ ) ) { wp_enqueue_script( $args ); } } add_action( ‘wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘wpse135482_enqueue_scripts’ ); Further … Read more
How to use wp_footer() on a 404 page?
get_footer() will bring footer.php, so including wp_footer() before the </body> will be more than enough in this case.
Add Different Actions To Different Page’s wp_footer
You will have to use wp_footer action for that. And check your pages in functions itself to perform some specific tasks. something like this. function my_footer_function() { if ( is_page( 1032 ) ) { // Do this } elseif ( is_page( 1033 ) ) { // Do that } else { // Do something else … Read more
Sidebar not appearing in footer, but it appears everywhere else!
The declaration in your footer tells WordPress to find the sidebar-social_media_sidebar_widgets.php file and apply it there. I think what you want is to declare: <?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘social_media_sidebar_widgets’ ); ?> in your footer.php file.
How to remove footer from just homepage
You can copy the footer.php file to your child theme and add condition to not display on home page. if (!is_home() || ! is_front_page()){ // All the codes which are not supposed to display on the front page or home page }
How to edit footer content
From OP comment: The footer.php file is all encrypted Do not download Themes from random sites. Only download Themes from trusted sources, for exactly this reason. The footer is encrypted, and the Theme is probably distributed under a license that prohibits modifying the footer. Thus, for both reasons, we cannot help you.
Admin Bar below footer as unstyled list of links
Have you perhaps copied in the admin bar links into the footer.php file by accident? At the bottom of footer.php you should see a function call “wp_footer();”.
WordPress Site footer on Firefox displays a error
This is not an error, it is a warning. You can make this go away by: Fixing the warning Write errors to the error log instead of the screen ( best practice ) To fix the error, I recommend looking at what’s hooking into wp_footer etc, or using a PHP debugger
Text Widget in Footer for just 1 page template
There are a couple of options: Use a Plugin that adds contextual conditions to Widgets Only output the dynamic_sidebar() in the page template in question. For example, if your custom page template is named template-foobar.php, and the dynamic sidebar name is footer-text-widget: if ( ‘template-foobar.php’ == get_page_template() ) { dynamic_sidebar( ‘footer-text-widget’ ); }