Hi there,
There are several ways to to do this.The easiest way would be to not use the footer widgets at all and instead use a column block with three columns.
A more complex way to accomplish this: In your child theme you can add support for a third widget by creating an extra sidebar in your functions.php.
https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/themes/functionality/sidebars/
(you can also look at the functions.php of Chaplin as a reference).
Copy the footer.php to your child theme and add the extra sidebar.
Also adjust the CSS to make sure all widgets appear to your liking.
Here is a little code example that can help:
Place this in the functions.php of your child theme:
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'chaplin_extra_sidebar' );
function chaplin_extra_sidebar() {
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => __( 'Footer #3', 'chaplin' ),
'id' => 'footer-three',
'description' => __( 'Widgets in this area will be displayed in the third column in the footer.', 'chaplin' ),
) );
}
This adds support for a third footer widget.
Copy the footer.php of the Chaplin theme to your child theme folder and change this between line 13 and 39
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'footer-one' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'footer-two' ) || is_active_sidebar( 'footer-three' ) ) : ?>
<div class="footer-widgets-outer-wrapper border-color-border section-inner">
<div class="footer-widgets-wrapper grid tlcols-3">
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'footer-one' ) ) : ?>
<div class="footer-widgets column-one grid-item">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'footer-one' ); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'footer-two' ) ) : ?>
<div class="footer-widgets column-two grid-item">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'footer-two' ); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'footer-three' ) ) : ?>
<div class="footer-widgets column-three grid-item">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'footer-three' ); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- .footer-widgets-wrapper -->
</div><!-- .footer-widgets-outer-wrapper -->
I also changed the class from tcols-2 to tlcols-3 so the width changes as well. Goodluck.
Thank you so much, @bianca205 !
Your modification works perfectly for me.
