WordPress 5 Complete - Seventh Edition

The footer.php file

Next, we will create the footer file. You can do so in the following steps:

1. Cut out everything at the very bottom of the index.php file from the following code:

      </div><! -  #content  - >
      <footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo">

2. Cut all the way through to the </html> tag. Paste the text you just cut into a new footer.php file. Save it in your theme directory.
3. Now, at the very bottom of the index.php file (from where you just cut the footer text), type in the following line of WordPress PHP code:

      <?php get_footer(); ?>

4. This is a special WordPress function that includes the footer.php file you just created. Again, you should save everything and reload your website to make sure nothing changes.