Adding Widgets to Footer

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Hi,

Anyone know how to add widgets to the footer area if the Wordpress theme dosen't support it.

I know you could do some html editing to the theme files, and I did so. But it came out looking weird.

Any help? If you would like to look at it soccerdrillshq.com
#programming #adding #footer #widgets
  • Not sure if it's changed in the latest versions of WordPress but you can create new widget areas by using register_sidebar function in functions.php file in the theme folder. But it might be a little bit too complex a task if you haven't done WP theme programming before.

    Please have a look at this link:
    Make Your WordPress Theme Widget-Ready Tutorial - See How Easy It Is To Widgetize WordPress Themes | Theme Lab

    But what you have now doesn't look too bad, what are your concerns?

    Peace
  • I am providing you tutorial link which gives you little bit help to solve out your problem.
    How to Add Widgets to WordPress Theme's Footer | Tips and Tricks
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    • Thats what I used, you wouldn't happen to know how to change the widgets that are in the footer?
  • Change in what way? The layout?
  • The widgets in the footer are the same thats in my side bar and I'm not sure how to change that
  • I see, good point, lol!

    1. Did you name the second sidebar something different when you registered it? (in part one of the tutorial Tom posted)
    2. Did you use that name in the second bit (part 2 - inserting sidebar)

    3. Did you change the content of the new widgets in your admin widget area?
  • I think you can tweak this if you know HTML. Not really sure how to do this, but why would you want the plugins in your footer? I think it will be more noticeable in the sidebar. you can do widgets in the footer per blog post.
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