Title: Extra Sidebars
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Extra Sidebars

 *  [jlodge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlodge/)
 * (@jlodge)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-sidebars/)
 * How to I add extra sidebars to my default theme?

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 *  [justbrian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justbrian/)
 * (@justbrian)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/extra-sidebars/#post-1139834)
 * Here you go, I had to do this on a site of mine,
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/271746](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/271746)
 * You can add them pretty easily – you’ll see all the info I needed to do it, you
   can add it to the index. There is a bit of a lack of clarity, and honestly I 
   would explain it here but it has been a while and I can’t remember clear enough
   to point it all out.
 * Basically though, you’re going to need to copy your style block for your main
   sidebar and then give it a new name (so if you have a style identifier named 
   sidebar, you need to add sidebar_custom or sidebar2)
 * Now, you can make a new copy of your regular sidebar.php and then rename it to
   what you named it (more info in the links-at-the-link) in the place you define
   them.
 * Next, you need to call it (as seen at the link) where you want it to show up 
   in index.php. I think you will need to add it to single.php etc too, but I’m 
   not sure – you’ll figure it out. It sounds really complicated but actually it’s
   not too bad, just play with it a little and you’ll figure it out.

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