How can I add a footer to Writr theme?

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  mysocalledlifeinabox · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 1:11 am

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  I need to add a legal disclaimer to my blog asap for work purposes. I am using the Writr theme and can’t find any simple method for adding a footer, so I currently have it in the sidebar, which doesn’t look great. I’m not good with script code etc, so hoping to find an easy fix.

  Thanks,
  Kayleigh

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 1:41 am

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  We can’t do script code so relax on that part.

  To put the disclaimer in the new footer (you have Infinite Scroll on) would take the CSS upgrade at $ 30.– / year)

  I don’t see a Page Widget in the Sidebar (good) since a Page should not show up

  Put the Disclaimer on a Page – then put a link in a Text Widget to the page at the bottom of the sidebar just above the Footer – then all everyone sees is “Disclaimer” with a link – I do that with my Copyright and other conditions for my site.

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 1:43 am

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  See also:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

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  mysocalledlifeinabox · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 1:46 am

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  Hi Auxclass,

  Thanks for your reply. I can’t actually find a footer mentioned anywhere on Writr theme, so I had to but the text widget in my sidebar?

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 1:58 am

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  Put the Text Widget as the last (bottom) widget in the sidebar – that will place it just above the existing WordPress.COM footer – the footer is done in code so you will not see it unless you look at the code for the Theme – like magic!!

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  mysocalledlifeinabox · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 2:01 am

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  That’s a big help – thank you

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 2:05 am

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  You be welcome & good luck

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 6:02 pm

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  Still a bit of fine tuning to do – sometimes my pasting code in the forum is not so good – but paste the code below into the text box of the text widget – that should give you a bold (not quite as big as you have now) Disclaimer link that is centered in the Sidebar

  <p style="text-align: center;"><strong><a href="http://mysocalledlifeinabox.wordpress.com/disclaimer/">Legal Disclaimer</a></strong></p>

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  mysocalledlifeinabox · Member · Nov 27, 2013 at 6:09 pm

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  That’s great. I’ll test ride it later, thank you.

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  mysocalledlifeinabox · Member · Nov 28, 2013 at 9:35 pm

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  That’s brilliant, thanks so much auxclass

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  auxclass · Member · Nov 28, 2013 at 9:57 pm

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  I love it when a plan comes together :)

  You be welcome

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  mysocalledlifeinabox · Member · Dec 3, 2013 at 12:01 pm

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  Hi Auxclass,

  Sorry to bother you again but you were so helpful before, I thought you might be able to help again? My incompetence has resurfaced and I am stuck at another two hurdles now.

  1) I want to add my name as a byline under my blog title – is this possible? At the moment I’ve just chucked it at the end of my blog description, but it looks a bit messy.

  2) I wondered if it’s possible to add a “submit” page, where people can contribute their own customer service woe related stories direct to the site? If that’s not an option, I was thinking perhaps it would have to be a text widget where I can just put an email address for them to submit stories to, or perhaps there’s a different option?

  Any advice would be brilliant – thanks again.