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WordPress 5 Cookbook
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WordPress 5 Cookbook

by Rakhitha Nimesh Ratnayake
March 2020
Beginner
660 pages
18h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating additional widget areas

Most WordPress themes provide support for one or more widget areas. The sidebar of a page or post is the default and most popular widget area. Widgetizing the layout is a popular technique in modern sites where the layout is split into various areas. The widgets can be placed dynamically in these areas to provide user-specific components in the site layout. So, we see widget areas being enabled in the header, footer, and content parts of a post or page.

The widget areas in WordPress can be created by using themes as well as plugins. In this recipe, we are going to look at the process of adding a custom widget area to the Twenty Twenty Child theme layout and displaying it on the frontend.

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ISBN: 9781838986506