How to Create Four Column Footer Section in Blogger/blogspot


F rom this tutorial you will be able to add four column to your blogger footer in easy steps. You can see the live demo at the bottom of this blog, i have four columns in the footer section. By adding extra columns at the footer, you will save some space in sidebar and also upload time of your blog.

How to Create Four Column Footer Section in Blogger/blogspot
I searched for ‘creating four column footer for blogger’ in internet, but found nothing. So i come across some tutorials on ‘creating 3 column footer’ and modified them to ‘four column footer’.

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Steps You Need to Add 4 Column Section at the Bottom of the Blogger

Step 1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard

Step 2. Go to Layout >> Edit HTML , do not check the “expand widget templates” box. This will simplifies the process

Step 3. Back up your existing blogger template (Click on ‘Download Full Template’ to Back up)

Step 4. Now search these line of codes or similar ( footer-wrap, footer, footer-end etc… )

<div id=’footer-wrapper’>
<b:section class=’footer’ id=’footer’/>
</div>

Step 5. Replace section code in red with below code


<div id=’footer-column-container’>
        <div id=’footer1′ style=’width: 225px; float: left; margin:0; ‘>
    <b:section class=’footer-column’ id=’footer-column-1′ preferred=’yes’ style=’float:left;’>
<b:widget id=’Text1′ locked=’false’ title=’About B-G’ type=’Text’/>

</b:section>
    </div>

      <div id=’footer2′ style=’width: 225px; float: left; margin:0; ‘>
    <b:section class=’footer-column’ id=’footer-column-2′ preferred=’yes’ style=’float:left;’>
<b:widget id=’Text4′ locked=’false’ title=’About Author’ type=’Text’/>
</b:section>
    </div>

      <div id=’footer3′ style=’width: 225px; float: right; margin:0; ‘>
    <b:section class=’footer-column’ id=’footer-column-3′ preferred=’yes’ style=’float:right;’>
<b:widget id=’Text3′ locked=’false’ title=’Subscribe in Reader’ type=’Text’/>
</b:section>
    </div>

  <div id=’footer4′ style=’width: 225px; float: right; margin:0; ‘>
    <b:section class=’footer-column’ id=’footer-column-4′ preferred=’yes’ style=’float:right;’>
<b:widget id=’Text2′ locked=’false’ title=’Access B-G on Go’ type=’Text’/>
</b:section>
    </div>

<div style=’clear:both;’/>
</div>  

Step 6. Now you need to add CSS for these section, add below CSS code right above ]]></b:skin>

#footer-column-container { border: .3px dotted #cccccc;}

.footer-column { margin: 0 10px 0 10px; padding:5px;
color: #666666; line-height: 1.5em; font-size:12px;}

.footer-column h2 {
padding-bottom:.15em; text-align:center;
font:"normal normal 80% ‘Comic Sans MS’,'Lucida Sans Unicode’,'Trebuchet MS’,Sans-serif";
color:#333333;
line-height:1em; letter-spacing:.1em;
border-bottom: 1px solid #cccccc;}

.footer-column ul { list-style:none; margin:0 0 0; padding:0 0 0;}

.footer-column ul li {
background: url(http://i421.photobucket.com/albums/pp296/rnbutpur/bullet-1.gif) no-repeat;
margin:0 0 0; padding-left: 16px;
padding-bottom: 0.5em; line-height:1.2em;}

.footer-column .widget {margin:0 0 .5em; padding:0 0 1em;}

Step 7. Preview and Save your template. Now you will have four column at footer section


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  • K.ETE

    Your template is very fine.Can i get your template .xml
    email me:rakeshkhan20@gmail.com

  • K.ETE

    can i get ur template in .xml

  • Rajesh N Butpur

    @K.ETE, i m going to release this template within 2 to 3 months. Check back. and also see my other collections. I have plenty of high quality collections. … shortly i m going to releasing my second template called ‘red bg’. You can see demo here . i think you like it also.

  • •▬●๋•p.k.áŕừń●๋•▬•

    hello i am not getting any background image as displayed in ur blog please give some suggestion.

  • •▬●๋•p.k.áŕừń●๋•▬•

    hello brother pls reply to my comment i need this footer to my blog but the background image is not displaying pls pls rply…

  • Rajesh N Butpur

    i have not used any image in footer design….. used background color…. here is the solution

    <div id='footer-wrapper-column'>

    —– Paste STEP 5 here —–

    </div>

    and css for footer-wrapper-column …. insert following code along with STEP 6

    #footer-wrapper-column { clear:both; margin:0; padding-top:5px; background-color:#ffffe0; border-right: 2px solid #f2dfa0; border-left: 2px solid #f2dfa0; border-top: 10px solid #f2dfa0;}

    thats it…

  • •▬●๋•p.k.áŕừń●๋•▬•

    brother i tryed this method also but it wont display any colour now also it is implemented on my testing blog u can have look on this template & give solution for this ..

    http://pkarunbca.blogspot.com

  • Rajesh N Butpur

    try brother ……. look at all the steps carefully ….

    or try yourself with this …

    background-color:#ffffe0;

  • Pankaj

    wat does CSS mean

  • R N B

    ‘Cascaded Style Sheets’ used to design and define layouts

  • blogger

    i created four colunm footer with this instructions it worked perfectly thanks a lottt

  • Sinar Hairan Edisi Timur

    Yes.. it works beautifully. Yr instruction is very clear. Thanks.. sooo very much

  • http://gamingprecision.blogspot.com Taylor

    Hi the footer works great. How do I change the background color of the footer? What should I look for in the code? Thanks!