main content shadowed by the footer

[xivid]

I know this is a feature, but I am wondering how I can keep the footer at the page bottom while not letting it shadow the main content. I don't want the footer bar to disturb the reader when the actual page bottom has not been reached.

Any suggestions/pointers would be welcome.

[alshedivat]

If you want the header/footer to not move while scrolling the page, you will need to change the styles of the corresponding blocks by removing position: fixed;. For the header, it is defined in _header.scss and for the footer in _footer.scss. Simply removing these styles may add some unnecessary padding before/after the corresponding blocks.

It would be wonderful if you could add a couple of options in _config.yml that control this behavior of the header and footer (and correctly handle the padding) and send a pull request.