The footer area is useful for holding legal and contact information. In this new website the footer contains the copyright information for the site, a link to the company that designed the website, a link to WordPress because as an open source piece of software it’s good practice to give it credit, and a login/logout button that will tell you if you are logged in.

You can add other items in the footer such as social media links, legal terms of agreement and service agreements. These are standard items that websites use to cover themselves legally.