WordPress 5 Cookbook

How it works...

We can use a theme or plugins to create widget areas. In this case, we used the functions.php file of the theme to add the widget area. We used the widgets_init action in the previous recipe to register a new widget. Similarly, we can use the widgets_init action to register a new widget area using the register_sidebar function. This function accepts an array of arguments. Let's look at each of the arguments we specified in the register_sidebar function in Step 2:

• name: This is the name that identifies the widget area in the Widgets section of the dashboard. We already had widget areas called Footer #1 and Footer #2 in the Twenty Twenty theme.
• id: This is the unique identifier for a widget area. We need to add a unique ID ...