Hi All,
Posting this for others future reference, I read a few posts like this one about having a fifth column in the footer widget area. and then added 2 and 2 together to come up with a solution
1. I used the customise footer to set the footer widgets to be only 1.
2. I added a text component to the footer widget
3. I added a shortcode for 5 columns as below
[column type="1/5"] Place your content in here. [/column] [column type="1/5"] Place your content in here. [/column] [column type="1/5"] Place your content in here. [/column] [column type="1/5"] Place your content in here. [/column] [column type="1/5" last="true"] Place your content in here. [/column]
works like magic!
enjoy