Footer Setup
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The Footer section of the theme consists of widgets. You can find the footer settings in the Theme Options > Footer.
There are 5 most often used footer styles in the theme:
Light LMS
Classic LMS
Distance Learning
Udemy Affiliate
Offline Courses
Every demo layout comes with the specific footer style and the footer will be set automatically when the demo import completed.
There are three components that can be used to create a website footer: Footer, Footer Bottom, and Copyright
Most of the time the First Footer section is disabled, this can be enabled and used for footer section extending.
Let's view a Light LMS Footer as an example.
The Footer Bottom settings are set as follows
The most often used widgets are STM Text, Contact, STM Pages, STM Recent Posts, STM LMS Popular Courses, Image
There are 4 widgets are being used in Light LMS footer: STM Text, Contact, STM Pages, STM Recent Posts. The widgets can be found under Appearance > Widgets > Footer Bottom
STM Text
This widget is used for the About section of the footer, the input field allows to add HTML code.
If Add Socials Widget checked, the Social Media icons will appear under text.
Contact
There are two styles available
Style 1
Style 2
In the Light LMS Footer, the Style 2 Contact is being used.
STM Pages
There are also 2 styles available for this widget, the Light Footer is using Style 2
Style 1
Style 2
STM Recent Posts
There are two styles available for STM Recent Posts widget and the Light LMS Footer comes with Style 2 by default
Style 1
Style 2
If just 3 settings of the footer bottom will be changed: Footer Bottom Background Color, Font Size, and Footer bottom uppercase title is enabled, we will have the exact same footer that Private Instructor demo has
The settings of the Copyright section of the footer can be found under Theme Options > Footer > Copyright. To make those settings appear you need to enable Footer Copyright Section:
Here, the colors of the Background, Text, and Copyright Border can be changed. There is also a setting for the footer logo for copyright section and if it is enabled the section for image upload appears
The text for the copyright section should be input in Footer Copyright input field.
As can be noticed the Footer Copyright section allow to use HTML code, so if it is necessary to have a link in the copyright text the <a> tag can be applied
Besides Logo and Copyright text, it is possible to show the footer menu in this section and social media icons
To make social media icons appear, please just select the Social Media you want to display in the Copyright section under Theme Options > Footer > Copyright
If the Social media widget added under STM text widget, these icons will appear below STM Text widget section in the footer area and will not appear in the Copyright section.
The social media icons won’t appear in the Copyright section if the Socials widget is being used in the Footer or Footer Bottom widget area
To add Footer Menu, go to Appearance > Menus create a menu for footer section and set Display location as Secondary menu in the footer
