{"id":300,"date":"2013-04-13T09:22:31","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T09:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2013-04-13T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T09:22:31","slug":"how-to-add-widgetized-custom-sidebars-wordpress-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-add-widgetized-custom-sidebars-wordpress-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"How to add widgetized and custom sidebars on WordPress theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

WordPress themes are usually come with Widgetized sidebars where you can drag and drop widgets. It’s okay when we don’t need more widgetized sidebars to the theme, but we probably think to add more when we think widgetized sidebar solution to your customization problem, for instance you want to add a banner ad to header area or footer area. This requires coding solution in few themes and each theme could have different solution.
\nThis plugin, Custom Sidebar<\/a> provides easy solution. The installation<\/a> is straightforward, we can download from wordpress.org, \u00a0upload it to wp-content\/plugins directory and activate the plugin in the plugin menu panel or Add New and search Custom Sidebar from the plugin menu panel<\/p>\n

Now, we want to add new widgetized sidebar (or in this case widgetized area). \u00a0I want to show a Banner Ad with Text Widget dragged and dropped to the new widgetized sidebar\/area.<\/p>\n

1. Create new sidebar in the Custom Sidebar panel, type name and description and click Create Sidebar. I make a sidebar name Footer: Banner Ad<\/p>\n

\"CS<\/a>
\n2. Go to Widgets panel, see that the newly created sidebar name Footer: Banner Ad \u00a0is at the bottom of Sidebars
\n3. Drag and drop text widget to the Footer: Banner Ad sidebar, copy and paste your banner ad code<\/p>\n

\"CS:<\/a>
\n4. Add following code to a theme file, e.g footer.php.<\/p>\n

<?php if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')) { dynamic_sidebar('Footer: Banner Ad'); } ?> <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WordPress themes are usually come with Widgetized sidebars where you can drag and drop widgets. It’s okay when we don’t need more widgetized sidebars to the theme, but we probably think to add more when we think widgetized sidebar solution to your customization problem, for instance you want to add a banner ad to header […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[55,127,129,128,6],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code-snippet","category-wordpress","tag-code-snippet-2","tag-sidebar","tag-text-widget","tag-widgetized-sidebars","tag-wordpress-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixert.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/cs-newsidebar.jpg?fit=1252%2C858&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-4Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":598,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/google-search-with-a-plugin-wp-google-search\/","url_meta":{"origin":300,"position":0},"title":"Google Custom Search with a plugin, WP Google Search","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"May 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I use Google Custom Search or also known as Google Programmable Search Engine on my WordPress blog. 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