Help – Adding another sidebar

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“The greatest prayer is patience” – The Buddha

honestly, tutorials are going to be different

the mechanics of adding a sidebar are pretty much the same, but the way people code can be different depending how they learned.

Also, depends on what theme they are teaching you about

I learned from this one….
https://www.blogohblog.com/adding-extra-sidebar-to-your-wordpress-theme/

but basically you may have to play around a bit….

sorry alchymth. i waited 10 hours :O lol
i think it is because of the time difference, im from australia

Also i was working off that site, i think my issue is with the index.php it should have –

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar.php’); ?>

but my template ( Stripey ) didnt have this code.

Also, my site DID have a functions.php page, and had this code that related to

<?php
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebars’) )
register_sidebars(2);
?>

but looked like this.

<?php
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
{
register_sidebar(array(
‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”widgettitle”>’,
‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’,
));
}

With a whole heap of other code, that i couldnt find in any other theme that had 2 columns.

start to edit header.php – at the end: change from this:

<div id="body">
<div id="body_top">
	<div id="body_left">
    	<div id="body_left_content">

to this:

<div id="body">
<div id="body_top">
<?php include("sidebar2.php") ?>
	<div id="body_left">
    	<div id="body_left_content">

(read for instance: https://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2007/11/how-to-create-multiple-dynamic-sidebars-for-wordpress-widgets/)

make a copy of ‘sidebar.php’ and name it ‘sidebar2.php’, save it in the theme folder (the same folder you got sidebar.php from).

edit ‘sidebar2.php’: end up with this code in there, sidebar2 code
edit ‘functions.php’: only at the beginning functions code (only the first 16 lines are different – copy them from the link without the line numbers, scroll further down to get the code)

edit style.css at a few places:
(assuming and tested with sidebar2 width:190px)

add these new lines:

#sidebar2 {
width:190px;
float:left;
margin-left:10px;
margin-top: 15px;
}

find these and edit the numbers:

#body_left{
	width:460px; /*was 670px without sidebar2 wide 190px*/
	float:left;

#body_left_content{
	width:415px; /*was 615px without sidebar2 wide 190px*/
	padding:25px 0 0 30px;
}

#respond{
	margin:40px 15px 0 10px; /*reduced 30px to 10px*/
	padding-bottom:60px;
}

#commentform{
	margin-left:25px; /*reduced from 55px*/
	color:#000000;
	font-size:12px;
	width:80%;
	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

this should be all, not intensively tested:
good luck, ??

Hey thank you so much!

Well i decided to not go with that. I was having wayy to much trouble formatting the whole document

I decided to go with adding a white strip on the side, so i can put the adds in there

My problem now is, i have the image but i cant seem to move it at all

Im using the code

#advert{

position:absolute;
background-color:white;
width:120px;
height:600px;
top:196px;
left:870px;
z-index: 9;
}

which is in the style sheet

and then putting the div into the header.php where all the other divs seem to be.

I fixed the problem

now i have an issue or question, i want to get my google adds to appear in this white section instead of all over my blog. im using Adsense now!