Title: Add Left Column
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Add Left Column

 *  [Grinninglikeanidiot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/grinninglikeanidiot/)
 * (@grinninglikeanidiot)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-left-column/)
 * Hi,
    I’d like to add a 3rd column to my two column theme for “Fresh and Clean”;
   I followed some instructions from another thread but it didn’t work for me. Here
   is what I did so far: Added the following section “Sidebar-side” to my style.
   css: /*** Sidebar-side ***/ #sidebar-side{float:left; width:250px; padding:10px
   0; font-size:0.93em} #sidebar-side ul{background:#FFF; list-style:none; margin:
   0} #sidebar-side li{margin:5px 0} .box{margin:0 0 20px} .textwidget{padding:10px
   0} #sidebar h4{font-size:1.43em; font-weight:normal; padding: 0 0 5px; margin:
   0 0 15px; border-bottom:1px solid #CCC}
 * Added new file called “sidebar-side.php” that contains:
    <div id=”sidebar”> <?
   php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘LeftSidebar’)):?
   > <?php endif; ?> </div><!– End Sidebar –>
 * Added the following to functions.php:
    register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => ‘LeftSidebar’,‘
   description’ => ‘Widgets in this area will be shown on the left-hand side.’, ‘
   id’ => ‘sidebar-2’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”box”>’, ‘after_widget’ =>‘
   </div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h4>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h4>’, ));
 * I’m not a coder at all, so ANY help you can provide would be great. The site 
   I’m playing with is: [http://www.doodlingdavincis.com/blog](http://www.doodlingdavincis.com/blog)
   
   Thanks! Stephanie

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-left-column/#post-4290242)
 * just some general question to investigate:
 * is the new sidebar/widget area appearing in the dashboard?
    should the ‘sidebar-
   side.php’ file not contain the css id `#sidebar-side`? did you reduce the width
   of the content area to compensate for the new sidebar; or increased to total 
   with of the theme? how are you calling the new sidebar file from within the template(
   s)?
 * for details, please contact the theme’s developer for support;
 * this forum only supports the themes from [http://wordpress.org/themes/](http://wordpress.org/themes/)

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/add-left-column/#post-4290242)
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