where exactly do you want the new footer sidebar?
– in the same grey bar as WTIX-FM?
— below that?
— to the right of that?
– in the scrolling section, at the bottom?
the theme already shows a menu in the footer, a copy of the top menu, although only on narrow screens; otherwise it is hidden via CSS.
do you want the same menu or an independant one?
ps:
the general code for generating a new widget area, for a footer sidebar, would be, to be added into functions.php of the child theme:
/**
* Register footer widget area.
*/
function twentysixteenchild_widgets_init() {
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Footer Sidebar',
'id' => 'sidebar-footer',
'description' => 'Add widgets here to appear in the footer at the bootom of the site.',
'before_widget' => '<section id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</section>',
'before_title' => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h2>',
) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentysixteenchild_widgets_init', 12 );
and, where you want to show the new sidebar, for example in footer.php of the child theme, add:
<?php // footer sidebar section//
if( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-footer' ) ) { ?>
<div class="footer-sidebar">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-footer' ); ?>
</div><!--/.footer-sidebar-->
<?php } ?>
needs additional CSS for layout and formatting.
Thank you for the reply and solution, and thinking it over, a tad too much work for me to deal with, that is, the template is already broken and there’s overrides which don’t make sense as is.
I think I’m needing a totally different layout anyway.
P.S. Probably because the template is broken, if I use the backend to remove the background image for the site, I develop a couple of unlocatable black (#1A1A1A) bars about 20 pixels high top and bottom of the browser window. Unless that’s a bug in the template, …
