You already have a footer. It's the part at the bottom of the page that says "Powered by Wikidot.com" and links to the Help, Terms of Service, Privacy policy, etc.

It has a CSS id attribute named "footer" if you wish to change the appearance.

And to modify the text contained in the footer;

1. Open your site manager
2. Click on "Appearance"
3. Click on "Custom footer"

Just remember to read the text on that page beforehand. You need to either link directly to the Wikidot Terms of Service, or link to a page in your site which tells your visitors how to find the Wikidot Terms of Service.

Note: Custom footer is only available to Pro+ accounts — the Pro Lite and regular Pro options do not include the custom footer.

I don't want to change the options on that footer.. there, that's more like a site strip at the bottom.

I want something like a box just below the content of the page.

I have tried using include but managing it takes a lot of time. Moreover, from my experience changes made on included pages do not show.. any latest info about that?

any ideas?

. Can't there be some sort of box that i can include on the bottom of all pages where i can put all sort of links.. it will just sort of help in engaging the users on the site. It would be really helpful if i have to edit that box at one place and have it all through out the site.

Again i do not want to change the footer which says Powered by Wikidot etc. It is completely fine to have it there. Moreover i want something just below the content box.

Can't there be some sort of box that i can include on the bottom of all pages where i can put all sort of links.

Yes this can be done and one way is with live templates and CSS as follows:

1. In the live template page of your category (i.e category:_template) add a css module to create a nav-bottom box at the bottom of each page and three columns for your links:

[[module css]]
.nav-bottom { 
    background-color: #dddddd;
    border: 2px solid #888888;
    height: 100px; 
    margin-top:25px;
    position: relative;
    width:900px;
}

div.leftcolumn, div.centercolumn, div.rightcolumn {
    float: left;
    margin-left: 0;
    padding: 0 10px;
    position:relative;
    width: 250px;
}

div.leftcolumn a:link, div.centercolumn a:link, div.rightcolumn a:link, div.leftcolumn a:visited, div.centercolumn a:visited, div.rightcolumn a:visited {
    float:left;
    height:20px;
}
[[/module]]

2. Then add the %%content%% for the content of the pages in your category.

%%content%%

3. Then add divs with the links you want to appear at the bottom of each page in this category:

[[div class="nav-bottom"]]
[[div class="leftcolumn"]]
http://www.wikidot.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk
http://strathviewconsultants.co.uk
[[/div]]

[[div class="centercolumn"]]
http://www.fairburnscoutgroup.org.uk
http://www.strathpeffergolf.co.uk
http://procurators.wikidot.com
[[/div]]

[[div class="rightcolumn"]]
http://feedback.wikidot.com
http://themes.wikidot.com
http://blog.wikidot.com
[[/div]]

[[/div]]

The full code for your template page is shown below:

You can see the working version of the result at http://www.strathviewconsultants.co.uk/footer:1 and http://www.strathviewconsultants.co.uk/footer:2 with the template at http://www.strathviewconsultants.co.uk/footer:_template. Any pages created in the footer category (which you can try as I have relaxed the permissions on that category) will have the box at the bottom of the page with the links. When you want to change the links, you only need to change them in the live template page and all pages in the category will be updated instantly.

btw

is it possible to add new wikidot modules using this? for example "comment" on all pages of a particular category and so on??