Register Multiple Sidebars in WordPress: the simplest way

Registering multiple sidebars for your WordPress blog/site allows you to use different widgets in different areas of your blog/site. In this example we will see how to register 2 sidebars and then use them in your template files.

In order to register your sidebars and then be able to access them from the menu Appearance → Widgets all you need to do is:

1. Open your functions.php theme file (* create one if it doesn’t exist)
2. Copy and Paste the following code inside the  <php ?> tag:
   register_sidebars(2, array('name'=>'Sidebar %d'));
3. Go

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