Footer Columns

The site footer is made up of a configurable number of columns, each driven by a Markdown content file. This makes footer content as easy to edit as any other page.

Setting the Number of Columns

In config/config.php, set how many columns you want:

$numberFooterColumns = 3;

The framework will look for files named footer1.html, footer2.html, footer3.html (and so on) inside pages/footer/. If a file is missing, that column will display an error message rather than silently disappearing.

Creating Footer Files

Each footer file is a standard page content file placed in pages/footer/. The filename must follow the footer[n].html pattern exactly.

Minimal example (pages/footer/footer1.html):

<!-- sectiontitle: About Us -->

We're a small team building simple tools for the web.

[Contact us](/contact)

The files support full Markdown and all shortcodes. They do not use the standard page metadata block (pagetitle, pagelayout, etc.) — only the sectiontitle comment is recognised.

The sectiontitle Comment

Each footer file can optionally define a section title using an HTML comment on the first line:

<!-- sectiontitle: My Section Title -->

This title is rendered inside a above the column content. If the comment is not present, the framework falls back to a generic label like Section 1.

How Footer Rendering Works

The required/footercolumns.php file handles footer rendering. It loops from 1 to $numberFooterColumns, reads each file, extracts the sectiontitle, passes the content through from_markdown(), and outputs each column inside a

<?php include 'required/footercolumns.php'; ?>