Solved: Global Footer behaving strangely on a few pages

Hi everyone,

I’m slowly losing my mind over a very strange footer issue and I’m hoping someone has seen this before.

I have a global footer that’s set to “Show on All Pages”. Normally it works perfectly. However, whenever I change the destination of a link in the footer—whether it’s an internal page link or an external URL—the change is applied everywhere except on three pages out of many.

It gets even stranger: two of those pages seem to be interacting with each other. If I manually fix the links on one page by editing the buttons, the footer on another page suddenly changes or shifts as well. It’s as if they’re somehow linked behind the scenes.

Has anyone ever experienced something like this? Could these pages be corrupted or somehow disconnected from the shared footer? I’m really trying to avoid rebuilding the pages from scratch, but I’m running out of ideas.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

@Steffi, have you tried going to the page you created the original footer on and then untick "Show on All Pages". Once done, give it a few seconds and then tick to on “Show on All Pages”.

I’ve found that this brings things back to how it was suppose to work.

Hi FlaminFig,

thanks so much for the suggestion! I already tried that, but unfortunately it didn’t solve the problem.

I’m in touch with Duncan and the support team now, so hopefully we’ll figure out what’s going on.

Thanks again!

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I think I found the cause.

It wasn’t actually the footer itself. On the affected pages I have a fixed “Back to Top” button near the bottom of the viewport. The button is inside a group together with a box that acts as a spacer.

Originally, the group had the “Scroll to Top” action assigned. I removed the action from the group and assigned it only to the button instead. After that, all footer links started working correctly again.

The strange thing is that I use exactly the same “Back to Top” button on several other pages without any issues. It only caused problems on these three pages, so I’m not sure why.

It’s really weird, but at least it’s working now. :blush:

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Thanks for the explanations, I have similar issues but am caught up with other priorities to finish first, and will look for any semblances in due course.

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