In this article, we’ll make our second modification by modifying the default footer content.
IMPORTANT: For the purpose of this series of tutorials, I’ll be using the WP 2.5.1 DEFAULT template for all examples. Yes, I know 2.6 is now out, but for purposes of continuity we’ll stay with the same version throughout this series. Don’t worry, it all works the same way in version 2.6!
Modifying Your Blog Footer
This is a another really easy modification. Again, it requires a little pre-planning, some common sense and a bit of imagination. For purposes of this walk-thru we’ll reorganize the footer content, add a bit of PHP scripting to automate the copyright date and add an image to reflect the site’s header for a little bit of interest.
The Pre-planning Stage
Load your blog in a browser and look at it carefully. In fact, it is sometimes helpful to save the index page WITH IMAGES as a plain old HTML page on your local computer so you can conduct a quick and easy check of things “under the hood”. In this stage we’ll compare the default generated footer content to the script to get an idea of how/what/where to change things.
The footer generated by the WP default theme looks like this:
