What is the direct URL for my footer
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I want to add a link to my Footer to the top menu bar. is there a direct link for that?
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I don’t know of a specific direct link, but you could easily add an anchor link to one of your widgets (or to a text widget), and then add a link to that anchor to your menu bar. For example: Menu item
Here’s some info on creating an in-page anchor tag: http://www.boogiejack.com/html/html-anchor-tag.html
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Forgot to wrap that ‘Menu item’ link up there in code tags. It shouldn’t be a live link, it should say:
<a href = "#footerlink">Menu item</a> -
Yes, you are going to need a page jump (anchor) link to add to your custom menu.
Put this into a text widget in your footer. You could title the text widget “Footer” and for a centered appearance, put it into Footer 2. Note that only the title will appear, not any of the code.
<a style="padding-top:250px;" id="linktofooter"></a>
Make sure the widget is visible on all pages; don’t specify “visibility.” You may need to adjust the padding numer, but for the book lite theme that seemed to be good when the widget is on top of Footer 2.Add this link to your custom menu:
http://myquestforfit.wordpress.com/.wordpress.com/#linktofooter
dashboard—>appearance—>menu—>links—>(the link above and name it something like, “Footer”)—>save menu
Make sure the menu is “primary menu.” -
This link:
<a href = "#footerlink">Menu item</a>
will not work in a custom menu. You must have a functional http:// link in navigation tabs, so you need to link to the website where the anchor link lives. -
For a direct link to the footer, you can create a custom link in a custom menu and use this in place of the URL:
#colophon -
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a) I read the question literally: it doesn’t say link to the widgets, it says link to the footer.
b) For a link to the top of the widget area, same suggestion applies, with this in place of an URL:
#secondary -
Ah, thanks!
So, colophon I understand.
secondary, where is that from?re: a) literally, maybe that’s best but I couldn’t figure out a reason anyone would want to link to that—well maybe Automattic itself would, but why would blog readers be interested in connecting to the Reader etc, or to the themes available?
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I don’t know why anyone would want to link to the footer or the widgets. But your reading of the question is probably correct. But then again, if you link to the footer you get some of the widgets too (since the footer will show at the bottom of the browser window).
Colophon and secondary both come from the coding of the theme: they are the IDs of the footer section and the widget section, respectively.
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I can understand a blogger wanting to link to the widgets when the theme has only bottom widgets; it’s a theme with nice clear and empty sides for posts and pages, but it’s not easy for readers to search, or to find archives or categories without a link to down there (in the navigation).
As for “secondary”
mark that up to user error. Just missed the nose in front of my face…
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