footer sidebar - 4 column versus 5 column footer

[nudolio 1]

hi i posted to a resolved topic and thought i would cover bases and start a new thread... Adam had php code to alter the 5 col footer down to 4 cols.. exactly what i'd like to do - but uploaded template.footcols.php with the fix into Platform base root and have no results - still 5 cols - am i missing something? gracias

[catrina 103]

Can you post a link to the resolved topic?

[nudolio 1]

Here 'tis: http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic/9090#post-49446

[cmunns 16]

Lately I've also been having problems with the template override. What version are you using.

[nudolio 1]

I'm using 1.4.1 --- probably time to upgrade huh?

[catrina 103]

I agree. The current version is 1.5.1, which is accessible through Launchpad.

[kense 0]

I've arrived here having posted here: http://www.pagelines.com/forum/discussion/comment/81659#Comment_81659 I've managed to create the template.footcols.php file and it now seems to be overriding the number of columns (though I'm not quite sure how it works?), but I'm having a few issues styling it because I'm a n00b... Basically, I'd like to keep the widgets the width that they are, but space them out so that they spread across the full width of the footer. Any ideas?

[kense 0]

For info, this is the code for the template.footcols.php that I am using to successfully override it: [code]name) ) : ?> " title=""> " alt="" /> " title=""> 'footer-links list-links', 'theme_location'=>'footer_nav', 'depth' => 1) ); ?> $post): setup_postdata($post);?> ID ); ?>"> post_title; ?> [/code] I'm not sure where in there it refers to the fact that I now only want 4 columns rather than 5, but it seems to be doing the trick, and when I had 5 widgets in the footer widgets area it passed one of them to be beneath another, so maintaining the 4 columns...