Customize Footer in Essence Pro

[notquitelost]

I have always used older Studiopress themes and never had a problem customizing the contents of the footer before. However, for this site, I am using Essence Pro and I tried 3 different hacks (my own, which always worked for dozens of previous sites) and 2 suggested on Studiopress's own website and blog under Customize Footer. Nothing worked. In fact, the Studiopress suggestion prevented me from logging into my WordPress installation, until I restored the functions.php file to original. What am I doing wrong?

BTW: I put all the changes to the file at the end of the current code on functions.php for the child theme. Please, please help. Thanks in advance.

[andytc]

Have you tried this plugin ? -

https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/genesis-simple-edits/

This will let you edit the footer without coding.

[notquitelost]

Thanks for the reply, but I do not want to use a plugin for such a simple task. The fix should be easy, but I am missing something... I have 12 sites running Lifestyle Child Theme and I had no issues customizing the footer with text, images and other elements. Not sure why Essence Pro is being so difficult!

[andytc]

What is that you want to achieve with the footer text and links ?

If you tried code from Studiopress and you ended up with a broken site , did you make a mistake and miss this instruction ?

<?php
//* Do NOT include the opening php tag shown above. Copy the code shown below.

[notquitelost]

I did the first time actually lol, but then I corrected it. I am going to code my own solution tomorrow. Hopefully, I can work it out and close this thread soon! Thanks for the reply. Time for bed for me.

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