Title: Customizing right sidebar Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Customizing right sidebar * [jboontje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jboontje/) * (@jboontje) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/) * I started off writing my situation down in code, but I decided to keep it simple. * Is there a way to customize (adding widgets to) the right sidebar? I can see the Category/Archives/Meta in the Sidebar.php file and I can add my own widgets in there by using code, which works **as long as** the widget is present in the customizable footer area. This means a widget wont work on it’s own in the right sidebar, you need to use the widget in the footer to make it show in the right sidebar. * That’s the thing, I want to be able to add widgets to the right without being forced to use the footer. Is there a way to do this? Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) * [Jonas Grumby](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ss_minnow/) * (@ss_minnow) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1935844) * Is the right sidebar widget-ready? It would have to be registered in the functions. php of your theme. * Thread Starter [jboontje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jboontje/) * (@jboontje) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1935849) * I dont think it is, the only widget ready area is the footer area (I can drag and drop widgets to this area). * I have placed the code of the fucntions.php file in here: * [http://shorttext.com/vuynin9hhsv](http://shorttext.com/vuynin9hhsv) * [erinelizbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erinelizbeck/) * (@erinelizbeck) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936455) * I would like to do the same. * sidebar.php include this friendly note: * ‘’ * But I’m not sure which “plugin” to “install” or how. * Thread Starter [jboontje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jboontje/) * (@jboontje) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936456) * I spotted this note too. In the end I was actually looking for a plugin called ´widgetized sidebar´, which doesnt exist… this plugin remains a mystery. * [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/) * (@chipbennett) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936462) * Widgetized sidebars haven’t required a Plugin for several major versions of WordPress. * What Theme are you using? * Thread Starter [jboontje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jboontje/) * (@jboontje) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936463) * The theme is called Beauty Dots: [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/beauty-dots](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/beauty-dots) * [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/) * (@chipbennett) * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936464) * I see the problem. * In sidebar.php: * ``` if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-widget-area' ) ) : ``` * But the Theme doesn’t register this dynamic sidebar in functions.php; rather, it only registers the footer widget area: * ``` register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'Footer Widget Area' ), 'id' => 'footer-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The footer widget area' ), 'before_widget' => '', 'after_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '', 'after_title' => '', ) ); ``` * This is a bug. I would contact the developer, and request that he fix it. * [zfly9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zfly9/) * (@zfly9) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936580) * Has anyone figured this out yet? * [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/) * (@chipbennett) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936581) * > Has anyone figured this out yet? * Ummmm…….. * [zfly9](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zfly9/) * (@zfly9) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936588) * Yes? I has anyone contact the developer for the fix? * [erinelizbeck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erinelizbeck/) * (@erinelizbeck) * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936590) * Negative. Would be a great feature, but I needed it immediately. * [Soptep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soptep/) * (@soptep) * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936613) * The quick fix is to add the needed code. Locate the file functions.php and search for the register_sidebar, which is registering the widget for the footer area. Now underneath of this function just add: * ``` register_sidebar( array( 'name' => __( 'Right Widget Area' ), 'id' => 'sidebar-widget-area', 'description' => __( 'The right widget area' ), 'before_widget' => '', 'after_widget' => '', 'before_title' => '', 'after_title' => '', ) ); ``` * For more info: [http://www.rufunka.com/blog/2011/04/18/add-right-side-widget-to-beauty-dots-theme-for-wordpress/](http://www.rufunka.com/blog/2011/04/18/add-right-side-widget-to-beauty-dots-theme-for-wordpress/) Viewing 12 replies - 1 through 12 (of 12 total) The topic ‘Customizing right sidebar’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [footer](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/footer/) * [right](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/right/) * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/) * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/) * [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/) * 12 replies * 6 participants * Last reply from: [Soptep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/soptep/) * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customizing-right-sidebar/#post-1936613) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics