Setting up the Footer (widgetized areas)

The footer is entirely made up of 4 Widgetized areas. When you go to Appearance -> Widgets, you’ll see Footer1, Footer2, Footer3, and Footer4. Here is how we set up the demo footer:

Footer1

We dragged in the « Recent Posts » widget into this Widget area.

Footer2

This is a standard Text Widget. Drag a Text Widget in there and give it a title and some content.

Footer3

The Google Maps is actually a Text Widget. You’ll need to go to http://maps.google.com and find your business location. Then click on the button called « Link » in the top right of the screen. Then click the « Customize and Preview embedded map » link.

In the window that pops up enter a custom size of Width: 200 and Height: 180. Then copy the code at the bottom to the clipboard, and then paste it into your text widget. In the code, i also removed all text inside and including the <small> tag.

See this video to see how I got the Google Map text for the text widget.

Footer4

The fourth and last footer widgetized area uses the « Contact Us » widget. Drag it into the Footer4 widget area, and fill in the textboxes with your contact information.