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Customizing Your Footer

Add a logo, tagline, link columns, social links and a disclaimer to the v6 footer, then set a footer for each language or custom domain.

Rebecca Thompson
Updated by Rebecca Thompson
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The v6 footer gives you room for a logo, a short tagline, columns of links, social links, and a disclaimer. It shows at the bottom of every page, so your readers can find what they need fast.

The footer options only exist on v6 templates. If you switch to an older template, your footer is saved and shows again when you switch back.
  1. Head to Settings > Customize
  2. Scroll to the Footer section, just after Navigation.
  3. Fill in the parts you want to show.
  4. Hit Publish.

What you can add

Option

What it does

Limit

Show logo

Draws your logo in the footer. It only shows if you have a logo or brand name set.

None

Tagline

A short line about your company or product.

160 characters

Link groups

Columns of links, such as Product, Company or Legal.

4 groups with 6 links each. Group titles can be 30 characters. Link titles can be 40 characters.

Social links

Links to X, LinkedIn, GitHub, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.

Links must start with https:// or http://

Disclaimer

Small print, such as legal text or company registration details. Line breaks are kept, and it sits just above the HelpDocs attribution.

500 characters of plain text

Each language can have its own footer, so your readers feel right at home 🌍. If you publish content in more than one language, you can set this up in a few steps.

  1. Head to Settings > Languages and open Brand text.
  2. Open the language you want to change.
  3. Scroll to the Footer section and set it up.
  4. Hit Publish.

A language with no footer, or an empty one, shows your default language's footer.

If a translation already has its own footer, it won't change when you edit the default language's footer. To make it follow the default again, clear that language's footer in Brand text.

If you use multiple custom domains, each one can have its own footer. Head to Settings > Domains, open the domain, and set its footer. Leave it empty to use your account's footer.

HelpDocs Branding

The footer always shows a small HelpDocs attribution row. To change how it's displayed, see Can I Change the HelpDocs Branding?

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