footer.php

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying the footer
 *
 * Contains the closing of the #content div and all content after
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Sixteen
 * @since Twenty Sixteen 1.0
 */


 //	$post_id = cc_chapter_create_post('Sample Hero NEW', 'sample-hero','<p>This is the hero post</p>', 'post');
?>
  </div><!-- .site-content -->
  <div class="site-footer-wrapper">
      <footer id="colophon" class="site-footer sticky-nav-main" role="contentinfo">

    <div class="cc-footer">
      <div class="column cc-footer-main">
      <div class="cc-footer-logo">
        <?php twentysixteen_the_custom_logo(); ?>
        <img class="cc-site-logo" alt="Creative Commons" width="303" height="72" src="<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/images/cc.logo.white.svg'; ?>">

      </div>

      <div class="cc-footer-links">
        <?php
        if ( has_nav_menu( 'footer-links' ) ) { /* if menu location 'primary-menu' exists then use custom menu */
          wp_nav_menu(
            array(
              'theme_location'  => 'footer-links',
              'container_class' => 'menu-footer-links-container',
            )
          );
        }
        ?>
        <div class="cc-footer-links-search">
        <?php get_search_form(); ?>
        </div>
      </div>
      </div>

      <div class="column cc-footer-contact">
      <?php get_template_part( 'template-parts/sidebar/sidebar','footer-center' ); ?>
      </div>

      <div class="column cc-footer-license">
        <?php 
            global $_set;
            $settings = $_set->settings;
            if (!empty($settings['footer-content'])) {
                echo apply_filters( 'the_content', $settings['footer-content'] );
            } else {
         ?>
            <div class="license-icons">
                <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" title="Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license">
                <?php /* <img src="https://licensebuttons.net/l/by/4.0/88x31.png" alt="License"> */ ?>
                <i class="cc-icon-cc"></i><i class="cc-icon-cc-by"></i>
                </a>
            </div>
            <aside>
                <div xmlns:cc="https://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="https://creativecommons.org">
                <p>Except where otherwise <a class="subfoot" href="/policies#license">noted</a>, content on this site is licensed under a <a class="subfoot" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license</a>. <a class="subfoot" href="/website-icons" target="blank">Icons</a> by The Noun Project.</p>
                </div>
            </aside>
        <?php } ?>
      </div>

      <div class="column cc-footer-search">
      <?php get_search_form(); ?>
      </div>
    </div>

      </footer><!-- .site-footer -->
  </div><!-- .site-footer-wrapper -->
  </div><!-- .site-inner -->
</div><!-- .site -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>
</body>
</html>