Code To Remove footers from post pages

[SonjaHelga]

I would like to remove the "footers" from my single post pages, and my pages, and keep on home page.... Any Help?

http://www.rebuild-your-vision.com

[nerdworker]

Hi SonjaHelga,

I came across this example the sounds like what you want:

http://www.ajsweb.com/how-to-display-genesis-footer-widgets-on-the-homepage-only

I hope that helps,

Stefanie
nerdworker.com

[SonjaHelga]

Thank you very much for this. I couldn't get that to work, so maybe it doesn't work with all the child themes... but at least I have an idea what I am looking for!!

[nerdworker]

Do you happen to be using Jetpack? It has a feature for widget visibility that I've used before that enables you to choose on what pages each widget appears. Kind of a long shot, but worth a try if you already have Jetpack.

http://help.edublogs.org/2014/01/widget-visibility/

[SonjaHelga]

No, I never heard of jetpack. But, if it will help, I can look into it 🙂

[Robodashy]

Without using a child theme you are limited to what you can customise directly in the code, as any updates to the Genesis theme will over-write changes you make.

However you can try something along the lines of:

//* Customize Genesis Footer
function your_footer() {
  if( !is_page(''home") ) {
		remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );
	}
}

You would need to make sure you are removing the action from the right hook, but this is another place to start.
If you think that customisations like this will be something you do more frequently, you could look into using something like the Genesis Extender plugin by Cobalt Apps.

Good luck

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[SonjaHelga]

Thanks for that... I will not really be doing a lot of changing of the themes. I like the Metro. The reason I want to remove the "Footer" from the post single pages, and the blog pages is because of Duplicate content. I was reading from one SEO article that your blog can be penalized if there is a lot of widget content, because it is duplicated on every blog page..... Made sense to me. On the other hand, I did want the home page to have this content....

[Brad Dalton]

You could use a single.php file:

<?php
/**
 * This file adds the single post template to any Genesis child theme. 
 *
 * @author    Brad Dalton
 */

//* Remove site footer widgets
remove_action( 'genesis_before_footer', 'genesis_footer_widget_areas' );

//* Run the Genesis loop
genesis();

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[SonjaHelga]

Thanks, do I have to add this code to the functions php as well as a new single.php

[Brad Dalton]

Simply create a new file using a code editor named single.php and add the code then upload to your child theme.

Or add to an existing single.php if you have one.

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[Brad Dalton]

Don't add the code to functions.php

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[SonjaHelga]

Thanks! I shall do that

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