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Footer structure and widgets

The SweetDate footer has these widget areas. Fill them in Appearance > Widgets.

Section titled “Footer Widget 1”

On the demo: the About us widget.

If you check Email/Phone option, your contact info will be displayed. Contact information will be retrieved from Theme options page -> Contact & Social section. The same applies for Social Icons.

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On the demo: the WordPress Pages widget.

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On the demo: the Twitter widget.

In order for Twitter to work you have to go to Theme options -> Miscellaneous and enter the application details for Twitter widget.

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On the demo: the Recent posts widget.

You can configure how many posts to display, content length, show/hide author image, display only posts from specific category or display all, display only specific post types.

Footer Level 1 - Widget 1

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In our demo we used the “Support box” widget. Here you can put some text for support info and a button with link to contact area.

Footer Level 1 - Widget 2

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Mailchimp Newsletter widget - In order for this widget to work you have to set your API key from Mailchimp(instructions can be found in this document, section THEME OPTIONS). After you have set the API key you will be able to select the list to which the users will subscribe to.

Section titled “Footer Level 2”

Testimonials Widget - This one retrieves testimonials entered from admin.

To add testimonials go to WP Admin -> Testimonials -> Add New Testimonial

Unlimited sidebars

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Sometimes you want to have, lets say for you blog page, different sidebar. No worries, you can create unlimited sidebars and assign them to whatever post/page you like. Follow the following tutorial to learn how to do it.

  • Go to Appearance -> Sidebars

  • Let’s create a Blog Sidebar. Click on the “Add New Sidebar” button

  • You will see that the new Sidebar has been created.

  • Next we go to Appearance -> Widgets. Add whatever widgets you like to your new sidebar.

  • Go to your post or page that you want to have the new sidebar and select it. Save the post.

  • Now go to your website and check the result.