Add Footer in WordPress theme? - wordpress

I'm working on my client's website and i have to add custom footer to the theme.
http://businessumpire.com/
The theme doesn't allow to add widget in the footer, is there any way to to add widget in 4 blocks so i can add menu, latest post etc in the footer via widgets.

You should do that overriding the theme or even better making a child theme. Then you should register with register_sidebar() wordpress function a sidebar for your footer and call it from your footer template via dynamic sidebar(). This way you could add all the widgets available to your footer. To add the menu in the footer you can call wp_nav_menu() in the footer`. If you dono't know how to do this you can try to download a theme which has this functionalities and try to adapt your code from there.

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Do you create Footer with elementor?
If you create footer with elementor, so footer widgets not showing and you should drag and drop widget with elementor to footer to show widget
If you don't create footer with elementor, this problem is the Theme

Removing header and footer in Elementor

I want to start designing with a blank page in Elementor but can't manage to remove the header and footer defined by the Wordpress theme.
As you can see in the screenshot I have already chosen the option "Elementor canvas." Nevertheless, the page still displays sidebar, header and footer from another theme.
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Make a new empty header & footer template and set it to display entire site.
User the theme "Hello Elementor" for a blank page.
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Elementor does not replace them unless you use Elementors theme builder feature to overwrite them.
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go to your theme header.php and footer.php
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and wp-content/themes/yourtheme/footer.php
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