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• July 28, 2014 at 12:29 pm #95238
  Nickylew

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  Post count: 35

  Hi there,

  I am in need of even more sidebars. I know there are already a lot of sidebars in there available but the particular site we are setting up could do with a few more for specific pages/products.

  I have found where the sidebars are being registered in the functions.php of the theme, but without wanting to edit this how can I safely register more custom sidebars and give them a name etc.

  Would be very grateful for help on this one.

  Many Thanks

  July 28, 2014 at 1:49 pm #95317
  Kyle – SUPPORT

  Moderator

  Post count: 35880

  Hi

  Please see: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-add-a-sidebar-4

  – Kyle

  July 28, 2014 at 3:23 pm #95368
  Nickylew

  Member

  Post count: 35

  Okay,

  So if I copy and paste the code from the functions.php file into my child theme functions.php file will that safely create the new sidebars? Being as all this should already be styled etc I should only need to register them right?

  Cheers

  July 28, 2014 at 3:26 pm #95370
  Kyle – SUPPORT

  Moderator

  Post count: 35880

  Yes that should work, however I have not tested before so let me know if you have any issues

  – Kyle

  July 28, 2014 at 3:30 pm #95372
  Nickylew

  Member

  Post count: 35

  Well, copying and pasting the entire registers sidebar code and adding in more sidebars does not work. caused the site to crash somewhat.

  Any ideas? Or what code I need to drop in there just to add the new sidebars but not fully copy and paste the whole register sidebars section?

  July 28, 2014 at 3:33 pm #95376
  Kyle – SUPPORT

  Moderator

  Post count: 35880

  Instead of adding the whole code, just add a new sidebar in your child theme, so basically just add:

  register_sidebar( array(
      'name'         => __( 'Right Hand Sidebar' ),
      'id'           => 'sidebar-1',
      'description'  => __( 'Widgets in this area will be shown on the right-hand side.' ),
      'before_title' => '<h1>',
      'after_title'  => '</h1>',
  ) );

  – Kyle

  July 28, 2014 at 3:49 pm #95385
  Nickylew

  Member

  Post count: 35

  Excellent, that seems to have done the trick. My sidebars have slightly mixed themselves up (content that was in sidebar 1 is now in sidebar 11 – as I added three new sidebars) but thats easily sorted.

  Many Thanks

  July 28, 2014 at 3:51 pm #95388
  Kyle – SUPPORT

  Moderator

  Post count: 35880

  No problem

  – Kyle

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