Change number of widgets in footer from 6 to 4

[trevors]

I'm using News Pro and would like to change the number of footer widgets from 6 to 4. Even though I'm only using 4, I'd like them to be evenly spaced across the footer.
Any help would be appreciated!

[Marcy]

In your functions.php, find this:

//* Add support for 6-column footer widgets
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 6 );

and change it to:

//* Add support for 6-column footer widgets
add_theme_support( 'genesis-footer-widgets', 4 );

Then in style.css find this and comment it out with /* ... */, like I have:

/*.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3,
.footer-widgets-4,
.footer-widgets-5,
.footer-widgets-6 {
	width: 160px;
}

.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3,
.footer-widgets-4 {
	margin-right: 20px;
}

.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3,
.footer-widgets-4,
.footer-widgets-5 {
	float: left;
}

.footer-widgets-6 {
	float: right;
}*/

and change it to:

.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3,
.footer-widgets-4 {
	width: 250px;
}

.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3 {
	margin-right: 20px;
}

.footer-widgets-1,
.footer-widgets-2,
.footer-widgets-3 {
	float: left;
}

.footer-widgets-4 {
	float: right;
}

I think that will do it.

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Marcy | Amethyst Website Design | Twitter

[Genesis Developer]

Also you can checkout this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-variable-footer-widgets/

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[trevors]

Marcy,
Thanks so much. It worked except that I had to set the widths to 240px so that the last column wasn't pushed down.
Thank you!

Also, thanks for the note on the plugin.

[Marcy]

OK. Great!

Thanks for the reminder about that plugin; I keep forgetting it! 🙂

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Marcy | Amethyst Website Design | Twitter

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