Kadence footer – I’m at a bit of a loss

[tom.berger]

tom.berger

March 4, 2021 at 8:09 am

Hello!

I’ve spend a solid chunk of last evening and today trying to understand both the Kadence header and footer. Though the header (mostly) makes sense at the moment, I’m still at a loss regarding the footer.

It seems there’s no official documentation on the footer, and those people who’ve put Kadence tutorials on YouTube, all seem to expect different things from a footer than I do.

So here’s the footer I’m trying to build (from a site of mine build with a different theme):

It’s just your run of the mill footer with a bunch of important posts, privacy policy etc.

Now here’s where I ended up with Kadence:

What I’m trying to do should be really simple. I just want to have a vertical list of text in which I can put custom links to pages on my site. I want to be able to style this text, e.g. make it bigger and smaller, change the color and add boldness. Just like the “Footer copyright” widget does.

There are about 15 widgets to choose from. Many of which are somewhat puzzling, like an audio player, recent site comments or WordPress meta data. But there’s no simple text block widget.

What I tried to do, but doesn’t work for my purposes, is add the “all page widget”, and the “HTML” widget. I just need whatever is being used for that Copyright widget, and all should be good.

Another challenge I have is that the title of the social widget automatically gets capitalized:

Is there any way to prevent this from happening?

Then finally, I wonder if I could somehow adjust the width of the footer content (and the header content) to a custom width. I’m looking to accomplish something like this:

Where basically my header, content, and footer all have the same width.

Is there any way to accomplish this?

Many thanks in advance.