Adding Footer Widgets to Twenty Sixteen theme

Hi there!

I need to add two more footer widgets to the Twenty Sixteen theme, which only had two.

Using suggestions found online, I successfully registered them on the functions.php thus:

register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => __( 'Content Bottom 3', 'twentysixteen' ),
		'id'            => 'sidebar-4',
		'description'   => __( 'Appears at the bottom of the content on posts and pages.', 'twentysixteen' ),
		'before_widget' => '<section id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget'  => '</section>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name'          => __( 'Content Bottom 4', 'twentysixteen' ),
		'id'            => 'sidebar-5',
		'description'   => __( 'Appears at the bottom of the content on posts and pages.', 'twentysixteen' ),
		'before_widget' => '<section id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget'  => '</section>',
		'before_title'  => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title'   => '</h2>',
	) );

And, yay! They appeared on the widget page. However they don’t appear on the front end. I am stumped on what to do on the footer.php page.

I know something needs to change in this snippet, but I don’t know what and can’t seem to find any thing online:

</div><!-- .site-content -->

		<footer id="colophon" class="site-footer" role="contentinfo">
			<?php if ( has_nav_menu( 'primary' ) ) : ?>
				<nav class="main-navigation" role="navigation" aria-label="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Footer Primary Menu', 'twentysixteen' ); ?>">
					<?php
						wp_nav_menu( array(
							'theme_location' => 'primary',
							'menu_class'     => 'primary-menu',
						 ) );
					?>

If possible, please guide me on what to add and where.

Thanks a bunch!
Mari

• This topic was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

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