How to Edit the Magento Footer & Footer Links

The Magento footer links are collected from a few different layout components:

 1. About Us | Customer Service
-> cms.xml

These two links are default static blocks taken from the database. To edit them, go to Magento Admin -> CMS -> Static Blocks.

 2. Site Map
-> catalog.xml
<reference name=”footer_links”>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”catalog” ifconfig=”catalog/seo/site_map”><label>Site Map</label><url helper=”catalog/map/getCategoryUrl” /><title>Site Map</title></action>
</reference>

 3. Search Terms | Advanced Search
-> catalogsearch.xml
<reference name=”footer_links”>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”catalogsearch” ifconfig=”catalog/seo/search_terms”>
<label>Search Terms</label>
<url helper=”catalogsearch/getSearchTermUrl” />
<title>Search Terms</title>
</action>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”catalogsearch”>
<label>Advanced Search</label>
<url helper=”catalogsearch/getAdvancedSearchUrl” />
<title>Advanced Search</title>
</action>
</reference>

 4. Contact Us
-> contacts.xml
<reference name=”footer_links”>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”contacts” ifconfig=”contacts/contacts/enabled”><label>Contact Us</label><url>contacts</url><title>Contact Us</title><prepare>true</prepare></action>
</reference>

 5. RSS
-> rss.xml
<reference name=”footer_links”>
<action method=”addLink” translate=”label title” module=”rss” ifconfig=”rss/config/active”><label>RSS</label><url>rss</url><title>RSS testing</title><prepare>true</prepare><urlParams/><position/><li/>
<a>class=”link-feed”</a>
</action>
</reference>

 * 2. Site Map, 3. Search Terms | Advanced Search, 4. Contact Us, and 5. RSS are the HTML links pulled by the function “$this->getLinks()”, not by “$this->getChildHtml(name)”. These links are pulled from a few different places as specified above.

 6. To edit the default Magento footer message ” Help Us to Keep Magento Healthy - Report All Bugs (ver. 1.2.1.2) © 2007 Magento Demo Store. All Rights Reserved.”, edit the following file.
-> /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/page/html/footer.phtml

 7. To edit the copyright notice,
-> /app/design/frontend/default/default/template/page/html/footer.phtml