How to Add 3-Column Footer to a Blogger(blogspot) Blog

How to Add 3-Column Footer to a Blogger blog

Please Note: Before Editing your Template, Save a copy of your current template by clicking ‘Download Full Template’ in ‘Edit HTML’ page of the Blogger ‘Layout’ Window and ‘Preview’ the changes before Saving

You might have observed that most of the Blogger Templates have only one column footer. It may restrict you adding more widgets to the footer section. With the 3-column Footer, you can add more widgets like Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Archives, Labels and even some Ads. It’s very simple to add a three column footer section to a blogger(blogspot) blog.

Do the following steps:

Please Move all your widgets from the Current Footer Section to sidebar or any other section
  1. Go to Edit HTML page in the Blogger Layout Window

  2. Find the following Code:
    <div id=’footer-wrapper’>
    <b:section class=’footer’ id=’footer’/>
    </div>

    (Note:In some templates, instead of footer-wrapper you may find footer or footer-section)

  3. Replace the entire code from starting <div> to </div> with the Following Code:

    <div id="footer">
    <div id="footer2" style="width: 30%; float: left; margin:0; text-align: left;">
    <b:section class="footer-column" id="col1" preferred="yes" style="float:left;"/>
    </div>
    <div id="footer3" style="width: 40%; float: left; margin:0; text-align: left;">
    <b:section class="footer-column" id="col2" preferred="yes" style="float:left;"/>
    </div>
    <div id="footer4" style="width: 30%; float: right; margin:0; text-align: left;">
    <b:section class="footer-column" id="col3" preferred="yes" style="float:right;"/>
    </div>
    <div style="clear:both;"/>
    <p>
    <hr align="center" color="#5d5d54" width="90%"/></p>
    <div id="footer-bottom" style="text-align: center; padding: 10px;">
    <b:section class="footer" id="col-bottom" preferred="yes">
    </b:section>
    </div>
    <div style="clear:both;"/>
    </div>

  4. Then Save the Template.
This trick will definitely work in all Standard Blogger Templates. For other Customized Templates, you have to find out the footer section in your template and add the codes given above. All the Best!

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  • appreciating you immensely!
    Hi! I tried this, and after driving myself crazy all day yesterday trying to do the 3 column footer, yours worked perfectly - thanks SO much, you are very appreciated!!!
  • Shirleytwofeathers
    I tried this, and got the following error:

    Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
    Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
    XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute "{1}" associated with an element type "id".
  • @Shirleytwofeathers
    Thanks for letting me know. Please try now. It's working fine..
  • Very easy and efficient. I used your example to create 4 columns. Thanks!
  • I have done this before and I like it, so I am going to try it on my new template.

    Thanks,
    Brian M. Connole
    www.i-blogger.info
    www.hcg411.info
  • tnanks
  • @Wonderme, @Memoria, @MinchinWeb
    Glad that I could help you guys!
    Regards..
  • Thanks for the code that just works! I tried a number of sites, but I'm grateful for your simple instructions.
  • Wow. It worked perfectly! Thank you.
  • Wonderme
    Thank you so much for this Tip. Working perfectly!
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