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Configuring custom footers

You can give users easy access to enterprise-specific links by adding custom footers.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise owners can configure a custom footer.

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About custom footers for your enterprise

You can configure the web UI for your enterprise to display a custom footer with up to five additional links. The custom footer appears above the default GitHub footer, to all users and on all pages of your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.

Configuring custom footers

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile picture, then click Enterprise settings.
  2. At the top of the page, click Settings.
  3. Under Settings, click General.
  4. Navigate to Custom footer.
  5. Under each "Footer Link" heading, type a title and URL.
  6. To save the content and display the custom footer, click Update footer.