Hey! I am looking for some help getting my footer menu items to hyperlink to the correct page. I can only get the link posted and hyperlinked below the footer menu instead of the actual menu item. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated!
Hi, @theoliveowl !
Welcome to the Shopify Community! When you say, you “can only get the link posted and hyperlinked below the footer menu”, what do you mean exactly, could you please share a screenshot of what is happening?
If you’re trying to make changes to the footer menu using custom coding edits, then this will be out of my scope of support, and hopefully another Community user can assist you there. However, I will mention that the easiest way to add footer links is through the use of a footer menu.
You can find your footer menu under Online Store > Navigation > Footer Menu. From there, you can follow our help document on adding menu items to create links in your footer. You’ll need to make sure your footer menu is connected inside your current theme. To check this, here are the steps:
- From your Shopify admin go to Online Store > Themes
- Click Customize next to your current theme
- From the left sidebar menu, click Footer
- In the Footer section, click the Footer Menu block
- In the right side bar menu, check to make sure the correct Footer menu is selected
- If you need to change this, click Edit menu
- Don’t forget to click Save if you make any changes
If you’re having troubles, please let us know what links you are trying to create, what you’d like this to look like, and where you’re getting stuck and we can go from there.
I attached a screenshot. I believe that it might be something with the coding.
So for instance, I want to be able to click on “Returns” to view the return policy instead of the clickable link being under “Return”. Same thing for “Get In Touch” I want to be able click on that and it take me to my contact form rather than having the clickable link under the Footer menu.
Thanks for the screenshot, very helpful for understanding what’s happening. The Minimal theme footer isn’t designed to have clickable links across the top. The design is to have different sections in the footer that have titles explaining what will be listed below. It looks like you’ve added a text section in the Footer section of your theme, and then added a hyperlink to the page resulting the end of the URL being displayed.
The best way to add menu links to the footer using the Minimal theme is to use the menu section. The steps to do this are listed in my previous post. You’ll need to edit your footer menu to have the links you’d like to be displayed.
Below is an example screenshot from my theme editor using the Minimal theme. The menu section labelled Footer menu is on the left, and the corresponding links are highlighted in the footer preview:
In the screenshot, each item listed under Links is clickable, but not the title “Links” itself. This is the same for the other sections you can see in my screenshot: Follow Us, Newsletter, and Latest News. If you wish to change the design of your footer menu so that the links across the top are clickable, you will require some custom coding. As this is outside my scope of support, perhaps another Community user will be able to help you with this, otherwise, you can always hire a Shopify Expert.
Let me know if you have any questions or troubles!