Title: Help adding widget to footer
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Help adding widget to footer

 *  Resolved [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/)
 * I am a novice at coding. I have only used WYSIWYG before, and now my company 
   wants me to update our wordpress site.
 * I want to add a three columns to the footer.php, I found this article:
 * [http://diythemes.com/thesis/rtfm/widgetized-fat-footer-three-columns/](http://diythemes.com/thesis/rtfm/widgetized-fat-footer-three-columns/)
 * and added the widget which now has this screen in my admin panel:
 * [http://crankshaft.net/wp-content/uploads/widgetscreenshot.jpg](http://crankshaft.net/wp-content/uploads/widgetscreenshot.jpg)
 * What is the code to insert the left right and middle widget menus into my footer.
 * they are already set to left justify and 33% in the css.

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 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886233)
 * You need to edit footer.php of your theme or child theme, and use the function`
   the_widget();` , provided by wordpress to display it.
 * Check the codes: [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_widget)
   for further instruction and examples.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886238)
 * What theme are you using? Where did you download it from?
 *  Thread Starter [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886245)
 * Custom Theme made by some guy in corporate a while ago and he didn’t finish what
   we wanted.
 * Is that why it isn’t coming in? Not properly defined in the Theme?
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886248)
 * Yes, it has not been rendered on the page.
 *  Thread Starter [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886254)
 * I added:
    <?php the_widget( ‘Footer_Widgets_Left’ ); ?> <?php the_widget( ‘Footer_Widgets_Middle’);?
   > to the body of the footer and nothing happened.
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886267)
 * Try:
 *     ```
       <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Footer_Widgets_Left' ); ?>
       ```
   
 * You can also test to see if the widget is active:
 *     ```
       if ( is_active_sidebar( 'Footer_Widgets_Left' ) ) {
       	echo 'The Footer Widgets Left Widget is active.';
       }
       ```
   
 * Can we see the code you used to register the footer widgets left widget?
 *  Thread Starter [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886305)
 * I added this to themes:
 *     ```
       add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails');
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar(array(
       'name' => 'Footer Widgets Left',
       'before_widget' => '<li class="widget %2$s" id="%1$s">',
       'after_widget' => '</li>',
       'before_title' => '<h3>',
       'after_title' => '</h3>'
       ));
   
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar(array(
       'name' => 'Footer Widgets Middle',
       'before_widget' => '<li class="widget %2$s" id="%1$s">',
       'after_widget' => '</li>',
       'before_title' => '<h3>',
       'after_title' => '</h3>'
       ));
   
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar(array(
       'name' => 'Footer Widgets Right',
       'before_widget' => '<li class="widget %2$s" id="%1$s">',
       'after_widget' => '</li>',
       'before_title' => '<h3>',
       'after_title' => '</h3>'
       ));
   
       function my_widgetized_footer() { ?>
       <div id="footer-widget-block">
       	<div class="my-footer-one footer-widgets sidebar">
       		<ul class="sidebar_list">
       			<?php thesis_default_widget(3); ?>
       		</ul>
       	</div>
   
       	<div class="my-footer-two footer-widgets sidebar">
       		<ul class="sidebar_list">
       			<?php thesis_default_widget(4); ?>
       		</ul>
       	</div>
   
       	<div class="my-footer-three footer-widgets sidebar">
       		<ul class="sidebar_list">
       			<?php thesis_default_widget(5); ?>
       		</ul>
       	</div>
       </div>
       			<?php
       	}
       add_action('thesis_hook_footer','my_widgetized_footer','1');
       ```
   
 * and this to the css:
 *     ```
       .custom #footer-widget-block { text-align:left; overflow:hidden; }
       .custom .footer-widgets { width:33%; float:left; }
       .custom .my-footer-one {}
       .custom .my-footer-two {}
       .custom .my-footer-three {}
       ```
   
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886308)
 * Firstly, I should have asked before, are you using the thesis theme??
 *  Thread Starter [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886315)
 * no, like I said I am a novice and just tried grabbing code to accomplish what
   I needed. We already have the site up with the theme whoever started the site
   for us used.
 * Is there some other way to accomplish it?
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886317)
 * Oh, well than that’s most likely why this isnt working. The function you are 
   using is hooking into thesis_hook_footer.
 * `add_action('thesis_hook_footer','my_widgetized_footer','1');`
 * Change that too ‘wp_footer’, which may help resolve the issue.
 *  Thread Starter [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886318)
 * I am learning the hard way that everything is built on what has come before so
   grabbing some snip-it doesn’t work so well… so without the theme and css and 
   widget and plug in and whatever configuration it doesn’t work.
 * What I want is to setup a footer similar to one at the bottom of this page.
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886319)
 * Have you tried changing thesis_hook_footer to wp_footer?
 *     ```
       add_action('wp_footer','my_widgetized_footer');
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886325)
 * Now we are getting somewhere!…. I am getting an error
 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function thesis_default_widget() in…..
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886327)
 * Oh woops, didn’t see that framework specific function.
 * As a test, do:
 *     ```
       function my_widgetized_footer() { ?>
       <div id="footer-widget-block">
       	<div class="my-footer-one footer-widgets sidebar">
       		<ul class="sidebar_list">
       			<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Footer Widgets Left' ); ?>
       <strong>Test Sidebar Left</strong>
       </ul>
       	</div>
   
       	<div class="my-footer-two footer-widgets sidebar">
       		<ul class="sidebar_list">
       			<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Footer Widgets Center' ); ?> <strong>Test Sidebar Center</strong>
       		</ul>
       	</div>
   
       	<div class="my-footer-three footer-widgets sidebar">
       		<ul class="sidebar_list">
       			<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Footer Widgets Right' ); ?> <strong>Test Sidebar Right</strong>
       		</ul>
       	</div>
       </div>
       			<?php
       	}
       add_action('wp_footer','my_widgetized_footer');
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Christopher411](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopher411/)
 * (@christopher411)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-adding-widget-to-footer/#post-4886329)

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