Updating your footer and site-wide links

Keep useful links, contact details, and policy pages easy to find at the bottom of your website. This guide covers the shared footer's content and appearance, plus the checks that keep repeated links consistent across your site.

For example, a small business could use three footer groups: Company for About and Contact, Resources for FAQs and guides, and Policies for its published policy pages.

Find the right footer controls

The shared footer has three sources of content:

• Site → Menus: column headings, link labels, destinations, and order. Open the menu described as Footer support menu; its name may be your business name rather than “Footer.”
• Settings → Appearance → Footer: width, layout, business-information visibility, theme toggle, and copyright text. Edit menu items opens the footer menu directly.
• Settings → Site: the site name, logo, and public business contact details.

These settings apply to pages that use the shared site footer. A custom page or template can supply its own footer or omit it, so check those pages separately. Website footer links are separate from header links.

You need navigation write access to edit the menu and settings write access to change appearance or site details. If controls are read-only, ask your site administrator for the appropriate access.

Check how changes are saved. In the footer menu editor, Save publishes the menu changes immediately. Appearance and Site settings save automatically and can affect the live site as soon as the save succeeds. They are not private page drafts.

Add a footer column and its links

1. Open Site → Menus and choose the edit icon beside the Footer support menu. Confirm the editor heading is Footer menu.
2. Choose Add column under Footer columns, or use an existing column.
3. Enter a short Column heading, such as “Resources.” Give every column a different, nonempty heading.
4. Choose Add link inside that column.
5. Enter Label, the text visitors will see, and Destination, the address they should reach. Use Choose a page to select a published page, or enter the correct address yourself.
6. Add the remaining links, review their order and destinations, then choose Save when the complete footer menu is ready to go live.
7. Wait for Changes published. Open a public page, scroll to the footer, and test each new link.

To edit a link, expand its row. Changing the menu label does not rename the destination page. Choosing a page fills an empty label from that page's title; it preserves a label you have already entered.

An empty column can be saved in the editor, but it appears on the website only after it contains links. Do not use an empty column to create spacing. Footer columns use headings and text links; header dropdowns and icon controls belong to the separate header menu editor.

For more about header menus, see Editing desktop and mobile navigation.

Use public destinations

Use a path beginning with / for a page on your own site, such as /contact. For another website, use its complete https:// address. Copy the public destination rather than an admin editing address or private preview link.

The page chooser lists published pages. If a new policy, contact, or resource page is missing, publish it first using Creating and publishing a website page. Saving the footer does not publish the linked page.

For a section within a page, use the page path and an existing anchor, such as /contact#opening-hours. Verify that the anchor exists. A bare #opening-hours would look for that section on whichever page the visitor is currently reading.

A complete-looking menu entry can still point to a missing or restricted page. Always test the destination without relying on your admin access.

Reorder links and move them between columns

Use a link's drag handle to move it within its column or into another column. For a more precise alternative, expand the link and change Column. This places it at the end of the chosen column; move it up or down afterward if needed.

Open a link's Actions menu for Move up, Move down, Duplicate, and Remove. After duplicating a link, update the copy's label and destination so visitors do not see an accidental repeated entry.

To reorder whole columns, open Actions for column and choose Move column up or Move column down. The editor's sequence determines the order of the groups; the appearance settings determine how many fit across a desktop row.

Choose Save to publish the complete menu changes. On a phone, columns stack, so check that the resulting reading order still makes sense.

Remove a link or column

To remove one link, open its Actions menu and choose Remove.

To remove a column, open that column's Actions menu and choose Remove column. If the column contains links, Cedros asks you to confirm removal of the column and those links. Move any links you want to keep into another column first.

Review the remaining footer, then choose Save to publish the removal. Removing a footer link or column does not delete the destination pages.

If you have not saved and want to abandon the menu edits, choose Exit or ← Menus, then Exit without saving when prompted. Once you have saved, restore an accidentally removed link by adding it again with its correct destination and saving the corrected menu.

Removing a link is not a privacy setting. Someone may still reach the page through its address, another link, or search results.

Add useful contact and policy links

Choose links customers may need from any page, such as Contact, FAQs, support information, or the policy pages relevant to your business. Use recognizable labels that describe the actual destination.

For a policy page:

1. Finish and publish the page with the content intended for your business.
2. Add its actual public address to the appropriate footer column.
3. Use a specific label, such as Privacy Policy or Terms of Service.
4. Save the menu, open the link while signed out, and confirm the correct complete document is available.

Adding a link does not create a policy or update its text. Maintain the policy page itself when its contents change, and review any other links to it if its address changes.

For contact links, choose the behavior you want:

• Link to your contact page with a destination such as /contact.
• Use mailto:hello@example.com to open the visitor's configured email app.
• Use tel:+15555550123 to offer a call action on devices that support it.

Replace the example addresses and number with your public business details. An email or phone link depends on the visitor's device and installed apps; provide readable contact information or a contact page as well.

A phone number shown in the footer's business-information block is displayed as text. If you want a deliberate tap-to-call action, add a clearly labeled tel: menu link and test it on a phone.

Update business details and copyright

Open Settings → Site to update the site name, logo, or public email, phone, hours, and address. These are shared details, so changing them can affect other places on your site too. Follow Setting up your business information for the exact fields and checks.

Wait for the saved status, then open Settings → Appearance → Footer:

• Set Business info → Show to display the available public contact details. Blank details do not produce useful content; fill them in under Site settings first.
• Set Business info → Hide to omit that block from the shared footer. This does not remove separately entered menu links, contact-page content, or the underlying saved details.
• Edit Copyright text for the line at the bottom of the footer. Use {year} for the current year and {siteTitle} for the saved site title. For example, ©{year} {siteTitle}. All rights reserved. keeps those two values current.
• Leave Copyright text blank if you want to hide that line.

These appearance fields save automatically. Wait for the saved status and resolve any error before leaving. To undo a saved appearance change, restore the previous value and wait for it to save again; exiting the page does not undo an autosave.

Updating the public contact email does not rewrite an email address you manually entered in a menu destination or page paragraph. Check those copies as part of the same update.

Adjust the footer layout

Open Settings → Appearance → Footer and use the preview to review the saved menu with your site's branding.

• Footer width: choose Contained or Full width for the footer's overall width.
• Content columns: choose One, Two, or Three as the maximum columns for the brand, navigation, and business details.
• Link columns: choose Auto or 1–4 for the number of navigation columns per desktop row. Smaller screens stack them.
• Theme toggle: choose whether visitors see the Light, Dark, and System appearance controls.

Content columns and Link columns control different parts of the layout. Neither creates a named footer group or changes which links it contains. Use Edit menu items to add, name, order, or fill those groups.

Make one appearance adjustment at a time, inspect the preview, and wait for the saved status. Choose enough space for your actual labels rather than forcing every group onto one crowded row. Review the public page after saving; the preview helps with appearance but does not confirm that each destination works.

The preview uses the saved footer menu. Unpublished edits in a separate menu-editor tab will not appear there. If the preview reports that the menu could not be loaded, use Try again rather than treating the footer as empty.

Keep repeated links consistent across the site

A shared footer change applies wherever that footer is used. It does not automatically rewrite links you typed into page content, buttons, header menus, or emails.

When an address or contact detail changes:

1. Update the destination page or shared business detail first and confirm its public value.
2. Update the footer entry, then save the menu.
3. Review header menus, contact pages, prominent buttons, and any separately designed footers for the old destination or text.
4. Update each relevant copy and use that editor's save or publish action.
5. Test the final customer journey from the public website.

Use one canonical policy or contact page where possible and link to it consistently. If a page uses a shared layout, check whether the repeated content belongs to that layout before editing individual pages.

Check the public footer

After the saves finish, open the homepage and at least one other public page. Scroll to the bottom and confirm:

• Each intended heading appears once, with the right links underneath it.
• The groups and links are in a useful order.
• Every changed link opens the expected page, file, email action, or phone action.
• Public contact and policy pages are accessible while signed out.
• The business details, logo, and copyright line show the intended information.
• On a phone, the groups stack clearly and labels fit without clipping or horizontal scrolling.
• Keyboard users can reach the links and see which one has focus.
• If you show the theme toggle, the footer remains readable in both light and dark modes.

Repeat on any page with a custom footer, and in each supported site language where relevant. Check signed-in pages too if customers use them; the shared footer menu is not a separate signed-in menu.

Fix common footer problems

Save is disabled in the menu editor. Check navigation write permission, whether anything has changed, and required fields. Every column needs a distinct, nonempty heading, and each link needs a label and destination.

A column is missing from the website. Confirm it contains a link and that the menu was saved. An empty column is retained in the editor but not displayed publicly. Also check that the page uses the shared footer.

The number of columns looks wrong. Distinguish the named groups in Menus from Content columns and Link columns in Appearance. On a small screen, stacked groups are expected. Inspect the public result with your actual link labels.

Business info is enabled but nothing appears. Check the public contact fields in Settings → Site, wait for them to save, and refresh the footer preview or public page. Displaying the business block does not create missing details.

An old email address or link still appears. Check whether it comes from shared Site settings, a manually entered menu link, page content, or a custom footer. Update the source of that particular copy.

The preview or public page shows the old menu. Confirm Changes published. in the menu editor, then refresh. Appearance autosave does not publish unsaved menu edits. Verify that you are checking the right site and page.

A save fails. Keep the relevant editor open and read the error. Resolve the stated connection, permission, or validation problem; do not assume a preview change reached the live site. For appearance changes, check the autosave status before leaving.

If the problem continues, see Getting help and reporting a problem. Include the public page address, affected column or link, expected result, device/browser, and exact error.