Using HTML to put a Privacy Policy link in the footer

I wanted to place a Privacy Policy link and a copyright statement on the right side of my site's footer as well as a "Return to Top of Page" link on the left side. The Custom Menu widget would normally be a good choice to use for the link, however, my theme would not allow me to use it in the footer. So, I had to figure out how to do this using HTML.

In addition, my theme provided only one large Footer Widget Area while other themes provided multiple predefined footer widget areas such as Footer 1 through Footer 4. To complete my task I utilized multiple Text widgets to space out four footer widget areas.

You can see how it looks at http://www.coolbaseballmemorabilia.com/.

The following procedure can help create these links on your site, whether you have multiple predefined footer widget areas or just one big footer area like mine:

Step #1: On the Dashboard, select Appearance and then click Widgets.

Step #2: If your theme has multiple footer widget areas, skip to step #3. If your theme has only a single Footer Widget Area, drag and drop the Text widget into that area four times.

Step #3: Add a "Return to Top of Page" link on the left side of your footer:

3A) For a single Footer Widget Area: Copy/paste the following HTML code into the text block of the first Text widget. Do NOT add a title to the widget.
<a href="#">Return to Top of Page</a>

3B) For multiple predefined footer areas: First, drag and drop a Text widget into the Footer 1 area. Next, copy/paste the HTML code provided in part a into the widget's text block. Again, leave the Title field blank.

Step #4: Add the Privacy Policy link on the right:

4A) For a single Footer Widget Area: Open the fourth Text widget and copy/paste the following HTML into the text area, replacing "[domain]" with your own domain name. Do not enter anything in the Title field.

<span><b>
<a href="http://[domain].com/privacy-policy">PRIVACY POLICY </a></b></span>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &#8226; &nbsp; &nbsp;
<span><b>COPYRIGHT @ 2014</b></span>

4B) For multiple predefined footer areas: Click on the right-most footer area, drag and drop a Custom Menu widget into that area, and add your Privacy Policy page to the menu. Note that in this case the copyright statement is not included.

Step #5: View your site and make sure the link and copyright are in the proper place. You can adjust the number of spaces between the policy link and the copyright statement by deleting or adding "&nbsp; " character strings (each representing one space) in the step #4 HTML text.

If you have any questions, please post a comment.