Adding Sidebars

Hi mythusmage!

I’m not quite sure your level of PHP knowledge but I will share some links that you may find a little useful in your road to learning how to add sidebars.

The first is the function register_sidebar:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_sidebar/

With that you can register one sidebar at a time. There is an alternative with which you can register more. It is register_sidebars:
https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/register_sidebars/

Now, with those two functions you can register as many sidebars as you would like.

In our next step, we create a child theme. A great guide can be found:
https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/theme-school/child-themes/

In order for our widgetized area to show up we then hook to widgets_init.

In the functions file of the child theme you can use something like:

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'mtm_extra_sidebars' );
function mtm_extra_sidebars(){
    // register_sidebar code goes here
}

As you can see it can seem quite simple to do, but as I mentioned, I’m not sure your level of knowledge or comfort level of breaking things. 😀

Hope that helps you out a bit. 🙂