diff --git a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
index 56d954e8a35..f6f9c475f57 100644
--- a/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website/views/website_templates.xml
@@ -136,65 +136,7 @@
                     <t t-raw="0"/>
                 </main>
                 <footer>
-                    <div class="container hidden-print" id="footer_container">
-                        <div class="row">
-                            <div class="col-md-3">
-                                <h4>Our products &amp; Services</h4>
-                                <ul class="list-unstyled" name="products">
-                                    <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
-                                </ul>
-                            </div>
-                            <div class="col-md-3" name="info">
-                                <h4>Connect with us</h4>
-                                <ul class="list-unstyled">
-                                    <li><a href="/page/website.contactus">Contact us</a></li>
-                                </ul>
-                                <ul class="list-unstyled">
-                                    <li t-ignore="true"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i> <span t-field="res_company.phone"></span></li>
-                                    <li t-ignore="true"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>  <span t-field="res_company.email"></span></li>
-                                </ul>
-                                <h2>
-                                    <a t-att-href="website.social_facebook" t-if="website.social_facebook"><i class="fa fa-facebook-square"/></a>
-                                    <a t-att-href="website.social_twitter" t-if="website.social_twitter"><i class="fa fa-twitter"/></a>
-                                    <a t-att-href="website.social_linkedin" t-if="website.social_linkedin"><i class="fa fa-linkedin"/></a>
-                                    <a t-att-href="website.social_youtube" t-if="website.social_youtube"><i class="fa fa-youtube-play"/></a>
-                                    <a t-att-href="website.social_googleplus" t-if="website.social_googleplus"><i class="fa fa-google-plus-square"/></a>
-                                    <a t-att-href="website.social_github" t-if="website.social_github"><i class="fa fa-github"/></a>
-                                </h2>
-                            </div>
-                            <div class="col-md-5 col-lg-offset-1">
-                                <div>
-                                    <h4>
-                                        <span t-field="res_company.name">Your Company</span>
-                                        <small> - <a href="/page/website.aboutus">About us</a></small>
-                                    </h4>
-                                    <p>
-                                        We are a team of passionate people whose goal is to improve everyone's
-                                        life through disruptive products. We build great products to solve your
-                                        business problems.
-                                    </p>
-                                    <p>
-                                        Our products are designed for small to medium size companies willing to optimize
-                                        their performance.
-                                    </p>
-                                </div>
-                                <ul class="list-inline js_language_selector mt16" t-if="(request.website_multilang and len(languages) &gt; 1) or editable">
-                                    <li t-foreach="languages" t-as="lg">
-                                        <a t-att-href="url_for(request.httprequest.path + '?' + keep_query(), lang=lg[0])"
-                                           t-att-data-default-lang="editable and 'true' if lg[0] == website.default_lang_code else None">
-                                            <t t-esc="lg[1].split('/').pop()"/>
-                                        </a>
-                                    </li>
-                                    <li groups="base.group_website_publisher">
-                                        <t t-set="url_return" t-value="url_for('', '[lang]') + '?' + keep_query()"/>
-                                        <a t-attf-href="/web#action=base.action_view_base_language_install&amp;website_id=#{website.id}&amp;url_return=#{url_return}">
-                                            <i class="fa fa-plus-circle"/>
-                                            Add a language...
-                                        </a>
-                                    </li>
-                                </ul>
-                            </div>
-                        </div>
+                    <div id="footer_container">
                     </div>
                     <div class="container mt16 mb8">
                         <div class="pull-right" t-ignore="true" t-if="not editable">
@@ -330,8 +272,8 @@
     </xpath>
 </template>
 
-<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" optional="disabled" name="Custom Footer">
-    <xpath expr="//div[@id='footer_container']" position="before">
+<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@id='footer_container']" position="replace">
         <div class="oe_structure">
             <section data-snippet-id='three-columns' class="mt16 mb16">
                 <div class="container">
@@ -359,8 +301,69 @@
             </section>
         </div>
     </xpath>
-    <xpath expr="//div[@id='footer_container']" position="attributes">
-        <attribute name="style">display: none</attribute>
+</template>
+
+<template id="footer_default" inherit_id="website.footer_custom" optional="enabled" name="Automatic Footer">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@class='oe_structure']" position="replace">
+        <div class="container hidden-print">
+            <div class="row">
+                <div class="col-md-3">
+                    <h4>Our products &amp; Services</h4>
+                    <ul class="list-unstyled" id="products">
+                        <li><a href="/">Home</a></li>
+                    </ul>
+                </div>
+                <div class="col-md-3" id="info">
+                    <h4>Connect with us</h4>
+                    <ul class="list-unstyled">
+                        <li><a href="/page/website.contactus">Contact us</a></li>
+                    </ul>
+                    <ul class="list-unstyled">
+                        <li t-ignore="true"><i class="fa fa-phone"></i> <span t-field="res_company.phone"></span></li>
+                        <li t-ignore="true"><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i>  <span t-field="res_company.email"></span></li>
+                    </ul>
+                    <h2>
+                        <a t-att-href="website.social_facebook" t-if="website.social_facebook"><i class="fa fa-facebook-square"/></a>
+                        <a t-att-href="website.social_twitter" t-if="website.social_twitter"><i class="fa fa-twitter"/></a>
+                        <a t-att-href="website.social_linkedin" t-if="website.social_linkedin"><i class="fa fa-linkedin"/></a>
+                        <a t-att-href="website.social_youtube" t-if="website.social_youtube"><i class="fa fa-youtube-play"/></a>
+                        <a t-att-href="website.social_googleplus" t-if="website.social_googleplus"><i class="fa fa-google-plus-square"/></a>
+                        <a t-att-href="website.social_github" t-if="website.social_github"><i class="fa fa-github"/></a>
+                    </h2>
+                </div>
+                <div class="col-md-5 col-lg-offset-1">
+                    <div>
+                        <h4>
+                            <span t-field="res_company.name" />
+                            <small> - <a href="/page/website.aboutus">About us</a></small>
+                        </h4>
+                        <p>
+                            We are a team of passionate people whose goal is to improve everyone's
+                            life through disruptive products. We build great products to solve your
+                            business problems.
+                        </p>
+                        <p>
+                            Our products are designed for small to medium size companies willing to optimize
+                            their performance.
+                        </p>
+                    </div>
+                    <ul class="list-inline js_language_selector mt16" t-if="(request.website_multilang and len(languages) &gt; 1) or editable">
+                        <li t-foreach="languages" t-as="lg">
+                            <a t-att-href="url_for(request.httprequest.path + '?' + keep_query(), lang=lg[0])"
+                             t-att-data-default-lang="editable and 'true' if lg[0] == website.default_lang_code else None">
+                             <t t-esc="lg[1].split('/').pop()"/></a>
+                        </li>
+                        <li groups="base.group_website_publisher">
+                            <t t-set="url_return" t-value="url_for('', '[lang]') + '?' + keep_query()"/>
+                            <a t-attf-href="/web#action=base.action_view_base_language_install&amp;website_id=#{website.id}&amp;url_return=#{url_return}">
+                            <i class="fa fa-plus-circle"/>
+                            Add a language...
+                            </a>
+                        </li>
+                    </ul>
+                </div>
+            </div>
+        </div>
     </xpath>
 </template>
 
diff --git a/addons/website_blog/views/website_blog_templates.xml b/addons/website_blog/views/website_blog_templates.xml
index 3a42abc644d..714e22fd8d2 100644
--- a/addons/website_blog/views/website_blog_templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website_blog/views/website_blog_templates.xml
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 </template>
 
 <!-- Layout add nav and footer -->
-<template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer News Blog Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//div[@name='info']/ul" position="inside">
+<template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default" name="Footer News Blog Link">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@id='info']/ul" position="inside">
         <li><a t-attf-href="/blog/%(website_blog.blog_blog_1)d">News</a></li>
     </xpath>
 </template>
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@
                     <span class="fa fa-times"/>
                 </a>
             </div>
-            <div class="cover-storage oe_hidden"></div> 
+            <div class="cover-storage oe_hidden"></div>
             <t t-call="website.publish_management">
                 <t t-set="object" t-value="blog_post"/>
                 <t t-set="publish_edit" t-value="True"/>
diff --git a/addons/website_crm_partner_assign/views/website_crm_partner_assign.xml b/addons/website_crm_partner_assign/views/website_crm_partner_assign.xml
index 06b5317c4ee..20bfbd73b18 100644
--- a/addons/website_crm_partner_assign/views/website_crm_partner_assign.xml
+++ b/addons/website_crm_partner_assign/views/website_crm_partner_assign.xml
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@
 <data>
 
 <!-- Layout add nav and footer -->
-<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer Partners Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//div[@name='info']/ul" position="inside">
+<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default" name="Footer Partners Link">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@id='info']/ul" position="inside">
         <li><a href="/partners">Resellers</a></li>
     </xpath>
 </template>
 
-<!-- Page --> 
+<!-- Page -->
 <template id="layout" name="Partners Layout">
     <t t-call="website.layout">
         <t t-set="additional_title">Resellers</t>
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
                         <li t-att-class="grade['active'] and 'active' or ''">
                             <a t-attf-href="/partners#{ grade['grade_id'][0] and '/grade/%s' % grade['grade_id'][0] or '' }#{ current_country and '/country/%s' % slug(current_country) or '' }#{ '?' + (search_path or '') }">
                                 <span class="badge pull-right" t-esc="grade['grade_id_count'] or ''"/>
-                                <t t-esc="grade['grade_id'][1]"/> 
+                                <t t-esc="grade['grade_id'][1]"/>
                             </a>
                         </li>
                     </t>
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@
                         <li t-if="country['country_id']" t-att-class="country['active'] and 'active' or ''">
                             <a t-attf-href="/partners#{ current_grade and '/grade/%s' % slug(current_grade) or ''}#{country['country_id'][0] and '/country/%s' % country['country_id'][0] or '' }#{ '?' + (search_path or '') + (country['country_id'][0] == 0 and 'country_all=True' or '')}">
                                 <span class="badge pull-right" t-esc="country['country_id_count'] or ''"/>
-                                <t t-esc="country['country_id'][1]"/> 
+                                <t t-esc="country['country_id'][1]"/>
                             </a>
                         </li>
                     </t>
                 </ul>
 
             </div>
-            
+
             <div class="col-md-8 col-md-offset-1" id="ref_content">
                 <div class='navbar'>
                     <div>
diff --git a/addons/website_customer/views/website_customer.xml b/addons/website_customer/views/website_customer.xml
index efe19b5b973..f9bdea2d72b 100644
--- a/addons/website_customer/views/website_customer.xml
+++ b/addons/website_customer/views/website_customer.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <data>
 
 <!-- Layout add nav and footer -->
-<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer Customer References Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//div[@name='info']/ul" position="inside">
+<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default" name="Footer Customer References Link">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@id='info']/ul" position="inside">
         <li><a href="/customers">Our References</a></li>
     </xpath>
 </template>
diff --git a/addons/website_event/views/website_event.xml b/addons/website_event/views/website_event.xml
index 4585c30eb1c..15bb778ab0b 100644
--- a/addons/website_event/views/website_event.xml
+++ b/addons/website_event/views/website_event.xml
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@
 </template>
 
 <!-- Layout add nav and footer -->
-<template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer Events Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//ul[@name='products']" position="inside">
+<template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default" name="Footer Events Link">
+    <xpath expr="//ul[@id='products']" position="inside">
         <li><a href="/event">Events</a></li>
     </xpath>
 </template>
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@
                     <div t-if="event.twitter_hashtag" class="mt16">
                         <p><strong>Participate on Twitter</strong></p>
                         <p class="text-muted">
-                            Find out what people see and say about this event, 
+                            Find out what people see and say about this event,
                             and join the conversation.
                         </p>
                         <p><strong>Use this tag:
diff --git a/addons/website_forum/views/website_forum.xml b/addons/website_forum/views/website_forum.xml
index f4650d7e215..a38c1a0756c 100644
--- a/addons/website_forum/views/website_forum.xml
+++ b/addons/website_forum/views/website_forum.xml
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@
 </template>
 
 <!-- Layout add nav and footer -->
-<template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout"
+<template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default"
     name="Footer Questions Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//ul[@name='products']" position="inside">
+    <xpath expr="//ul[@id='products']" position="inside">
         <li><a t-attf-href="/forum/%(website_forum.forum_help)d">Q&amp;A</a></li>
         <li><a href="/forum">Forums</a></li>
     </xpath>
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
                             <div class="panel-heading text-center">
                                 <h3 class="panel-title ">Stats</h3>
                             </div>
-                            <div class="panel-body"> 
+                            <div class="panel-body">
                                 <table class="table">
                                     <thead><tr><td> Asked: <strong><span t-field="question.create_date" t-field-options='{"format":"short"}'/></strong></td></tr></thead>
                                     <tr><td> Seen: <strong><t t-raw="question.views"/></strong>
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
                     style="display: inline-block;"/>
                 on <span t-field="question.write_date" t-field-options='{"format":"short"}'/>
                 with <b t-field="question.views"/> views
-                <span t-if="question.vote_count&gt;0"> and 
+                <span t-if="question.vote_count&gt;0"> and
                     <b t-esc="question.vote_count or 0"/>
                     <t t-if="question.vote_count&gt;1">votes</t>
                     <t t-if="question.vote_count==1">vote</t>
@@ -414,10 +414,10 @@
 
 <template id="vote">
     <div t-attf-class="box oe_grey">
-        <a t-attf-class="vote_up fa fa-thumbs-up no-decoration #{post.user_vote == 1 and 'text-success' or ''}" 
+        <a t-attf-class="vote_up fa fa-thumbs-up no-decoration #{post.user_vote == 1 and 'text-success' or ''}"
             t-attf-data-href="/forum/#{slug(post.forum_id)}/post/#{slug(post)}/upvote"/>
         <span id="vote_count" t-esc="post.vote_count"/>
-        <a t-attf-class="vote_down fa fa-thumbs-down no-decoration #{post.user_vote == -1 and 'text-warning' or ''}" 
+        <a t-attf-class="vote_down fa fa-thumbs-down no-decoration #{post.user_vote == -1 and 'text-warning' or ''}"
             t-attf-data-href="/forum/#{slug(post.forum_id)}/post/#{slug(post)}/downvote"/>
         <div t-if="vote_count &gt; 1" class="subtitle">
             votes
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@
                 <a t-attf-href="/forum/#{ slug(forum) }/tag/#{ slug(tag) }/questions?{{ keep_query( filters='tag') }}" class="badge">
                     <span t-field="tag.name"/>
                 </a>
-                <span> 
+                <span>
                     X <t t-esc="tag.posts_count"/>
                 </span>
             </div>
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
 
 <template id="badge_user">
     <t t-call="website_forum.header">
-        <h3 class="mt32 mb32"> 
+        <h3 class="mt32 mb32">
             <b>Badge "<span t-field="badge.name"/>"</b>
         </h3>
         <div>
@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@
                 <label class="col-md-2 control-label mb16" for="user.name">Real name</label>
                 <div class="col-md-7 mb16">
                     <input type="text" class="col-md-7 mb16 form-control" name="name" required="True" t-attf-value="#{user.name}"/>
-                </div> 
+                </div>
                 <label class="col-md-2 control-label mb16" for="user.partner_id.website">Website</label>
                 <div class="col-md-7 mb16">
                     <input type="text" class="form-control" name="website" t-attf-value="#{user.partner_id.website or ''}"/>
@@ -790,7 +790,7 @@
                 <!--Note: using website_description fiels instead of using commnt firld of partner-->
                 <label class="col-md-4 control-label mb16" for="user.partner_id.website_description">Biography</label>
                 <div class="col-md-7 mb16">
-                    <textarea name="description" style="min-height: 120px" required="True" 
+                    <textarea name="description" style="min-height: 120px" required="True"
                         class="form-control"><t t-esc="user.partner_id.website_description"/></textarea>
                 </div>
                 <div class="col-sm-offset-4 col-md-4 mb16">
@@ -835,7 +835,7 @@
                         <span t-if="user.city and user.country_id">, </span>
                         <span t-field="user.country_id"/>
                         <t t-if="user.country_id"> <span t-field="user.country_id.image" t-field-options='{"widget": "image", "class": "country_flag"}'/></t>
-                        
+
                     </td>
                 </tr>
                 <tr>
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@
                         <span t-field="activity.date" t-field-options='{"format": "short"}'/>
                         <span t-esc="activity.subtype_id.name" class="label label-info"/>
                         <t t-set="post" t-value="posts[activity.res_id]"/>
-                        <span t-if="post[1]"> 
+                        <span t-if="post[1]">
                             <a t-attf-href="/forum/#{ slug(forum) }/question/#{ slug(post[0]) }#answer-#{ str(post[1].id) }">
                                 <span t-esc="post[0].name"/>
                             </a>
diff --git a/addons/website_forum_doc/views/website_doc.xml b/addons/website_forum_doc/views/website_doc.xml
index ee06ac7f964..14dae04b78d 100644
--- a/addons/website_forum_doc/views/website_doc.xml
+++ b/addons/website_forum_doc/views/website_doc.xml
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
     <data>
 
         <!-- Layout add nav and footer -->
-        <template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout"
+        <template id="header_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default"
             name="Footer Documentation Link">
-            <xpath expr="//footer//ul[@name='products']" position="inside">
+            <xpath expr="//ul[@id='products']" position="inside">
                 <li><a href="/forum/how-to">Documentation</a></li>
             </xpath>
         </template>
diff --git a/addons/website_hr_recruitment/views/templates.xml b/addons/website_hr_recruitment/views/templates.xml
index 2c31f26b8dc..95f85dfe2ef 100644
--- a/addons/website_hr_recruitment/views/templates.xml
+++ b/addons/website_hr_recruitment/views/templates.xml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
     </xpath>
 </template>
 
-<template id="job_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer Job Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//div[@name='info']/ul" position="inside">
+<template id="job_footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default" name="Footer Job Link">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@id='info']/ul" position="inside">
     <li><a href="/jobs">Jobs</a></li>
     </xpath>
 </template>
diff --git a/addons/website_mail_group/views/website_mail_group.xml b/addons/website_mail_group/views/website_mail_group.xml
index d52c34513b8..8ecbd6c84ed 100644
--- a/addons/website_mail_group/views/website_mail_group.xml
+++ b/addons/website_mail_group/views/website_mail_group.xml
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 <openerp>
 <data>
 
-<template id="footer_mailing_list" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer Mailing List Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//div[@name='info']/ul" position="inside">
+<template id="footer_mailing_list" inherit_id="website.footer_default" name="Footer Mailing List Link">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@id='info']/ul" position="inside">
         <li><a t-attf-href="/groups">Mailing List</a></li>
     </xpath>
 </template>
diff --git a/addons/website_membership/views/website_membership.xml b/addons/website_membership/views/website_membership.xml
index d10f5a933e2..88c3ade065d 100644
--- a/addons/website_membership/views/website_membership.xml
+++ b/addons/website_membership/views/website_membership.xml
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 <data>
 
 <!-- Layout add nav and footer -->
-<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.layout" name="Footer Associations Link">
-    <xpath expr="//footer//div[@name='info']/ul" position="inside">
+<template id="footer_custom" inherit_id="website.footer_default" name="Footer Associations Link">
+    <xpath expr="//div[@id='info']/ul" position="inside">
         <li><a href="/members">Members</a></li>
     </xpath>
 </template>