UW Theme Classic - Creating and Editing a Footer
Important
This document outlines steps related to UW Theme Classic. This theme will be decommissioned in WiscWeb at the end of December 2026. At that time, this documentation will go away. If you are looking for how to do this process in the new theme, please visit the UW Theme 2.0 website.
Accessing the footer
The footer menu can be located in WordPress by going to Appearance > Customize > Footer. Once you access the footer menu, you'll be presented with the following options.
Footer Options
- Campus Address: Insert your campus address in this field.
- Map URL: Insert a link to your physical location.
- Contact email: Insert your email address.
- Contact phone: insert your phone number.
- Facebook URL: Insert your Facebook URL. The footer will populate with a Facebook icon.
- X / Twitter URL: Insert your Twitter URL. The footer will populate with a Twitter icon.
- Instagram URL: Insert your Instagram URL. The footer will populate with an Instagram icon.
- YouTube URL: Insert your YouTube URL. The footer will populate with a YouTube icon.
- LinkedIn URL: Insert your LinkedIn URL. The footer will populate with a LinkedIn icon.
- Footer Menus: Choose a menu or two that you would like to appear in the menu. See the screenshots below to see how they appear on your site.
- Website issues contact: This email address is used at the bottom of the footer as a means of contact for any feedback, questions, or issues with the site itself. The email address defaults to the primary administrative contact address, but can be updated here.
Using menus in the footer
Before you put additional menus in you footer, you need to create them using [Link for document 67803 is unavailable at this time].
After you have created a footer menu, you can select it for Footer Menu 1 or Footer Menu 2. The screenshots below will show you how those menus appear if you choose just one menu or two.
