Five widgets in footer area

BB Theme
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Hello

I need to have a 5 columns or widget areas in the footer instead of 4. I was trying to find them in the theme files to try to add an additional one but couldn’t find where they were.

Could you tell me how I can make that happen, please?

Thank you,
Mark

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So, I found this post here Use “Saved Row or Template as Header/Footer”. I guess what I’m wanting to do then is create my own footer area and have it be global on all pages and posts.

I read in the above thread and I found that gave an indication about the possibly having some kind of upcoming update to the framework that allows us to make a custom footer area? Is that correct?

I’m using the BB theme and need to be more creative than just having 4 equal widget areas. I’d prefer to be able to use and customize columns rather than being limited to just widgets, if possible. Could you please give me some advice on how I can do that, please?

Thank you!
Mark

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I meant the thread “Use Saved Row or Template as Header/Footer”. I’m not clear if that’s what I should be doing though in order to have a global customized footer area.

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Hey Mark,

Welcome to the BB forums! :slight_smile:

On that thread, Robe created a video showing how to achieve it, using a Saved Row as a your footer, etc. You can find his video on the link below.
http://forum.wpbeaverbuilder.com/support/q/use-saved-row-or-template-as-headerfooter/#post-77427

On the video, Robe used a 3rd party plugin named Insert Pages. But on the latest version of our plugin, we already have a shortcode baked in which does the same thing. You can check the KB article below for more info. :slight_smile:
http://forum.wpbeaverbuilder.com/knowledge-base/shortcodes/

Ben

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Thanks for the reply Ben.

I’ve watched the video and was just sitting down to do it. I created the global row and saved it and was going to use the “insert page” to put in the shortcode.

When I go to the post you gave above on “Shortcodes”, I see the directions but for some reason the areas that I’m assuming are showing code examples are nothing but blank black colored backgrounds to me so I’m not able to repeat the examples.

Could you possibly paste in a completed example of a shortcode I would use for say a custom footer area using a saved row in this thread, please?

Thank you

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hello Ben

So, I was able to do what I wanted using the “insert page” plugin and will just wait to hear back from you on why I’m not able to see the code example on the post you gave be above. If nothing else, maybe you could just paste in the code example here.

Thanks,
Mark

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Hi Mark,

There was a minor issue with the docs article, which has now been corrected. Can you check the article again and see if you can see the shortcode, please?

Thanks,
Danny

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Thanks, Danny!

Yes, I see it. I should point out one thing though. If you place the shortcode inside php brackets, you would have to put single quotations inside the shortcode.

The shortcode in the example isn’t for hard coding in the footer.php. So, it would have to be as follows;

<?php echo do_shortcode( "[fl_builder_insert_layout slug='footer' type='fl-builder-template']" ); ?>

Just so others are aware. Other then that, all worked fine. Thanks again!

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Hi Mark,

Thanks for sharing, we appreciate it.

Thanks,
Danny