The correct way is to make a child theme from the chosen theme and alter only the footer template to add additional sidebars. You can prepare additional sidebars in the child themes function.php and add them to any template you need altered.
Related Posts:
- Show widget differently depending on if it’s in the sidebar or footer
- Newbie: Help with Vertical Spacing on Footer Widget [closed]
- Add default widgets to footer
- Text Widget in Footer for just 1 page template
- Cannot change footer text?
- Multiple rows of footer widget areas
- Output column number according to active sidebars
- why the code html apear in this widget in footer
- How do I add footer widgets to the StudioPress Monochrome Pro theme?
- Recent Posts Widget URL / Domain change
- Make a widget to my footer
- Can’t edit the widgets sidebar or footer
- How can I use the built in WordPress “browse link” functionality?
- Code for Recent Posts Widget
- Modifying the default search widget
- Prevent widgets removal
- Is there a way to add more tags to the tag cloud?
- Modify recent post sidebar to show post thumbs with out plugins
- How to build widget with arrays inside arrays?
- How do I save data from submitted form from widget
- Why Can’t wp_editor Be Used in a Custom Widget?
- How to listen to color changes on the color picker?
- Disable default WordPress widgets in sidebar
- Updating to Version 4.5 bumped my “main sidebar” widget out of place
- How can I delete all inactive widgets?
- Call sidebar from a template
- Adding classes to dynamic sidebar
- Widget Area: Modify $param[‘xy’] from widget-$n
- Need help adding additional controls to a custom widget
- Why do none of my widgets have a title?
- How to limit wp_get_archives to show months for the X years only
- Adding a widget to a string of HTML
- How to add a class to a link in text editor
- WordPress widget new instance creates content duplicates
- Pass variables from one widget to another widget
- Check if widget is active
- Radio buttons in widget not saving
- AJAX Contact Form Issue
- Including PHP files doesn’t work outside of Localhost
- Is there an official email form widget or block?
- Display sidebar only if it has content
- Post-specific widgets in WordPress ‘Twenty Fourteen’ theme
- Can WordPress Read Its Own RSS Feed?
- Debug errors on sidebar
- Dynamic sidebar based on category
- Show posts from one category with thumbnail and description on latest
- Widget textarea input gets formatted
- Get posts after today (upcoming events)
- How to pass data from page to widget functions?
- Adding a rich text editor to a widget – specifically CKEditor
- Enqueue script/style if certain widget has certain value
- Is it possible to display tag cloud widget by category?
- Widgets not saving values
- Widget page is missing from menu and default widgets are not showing
- wp_editor in widget breaks after save (no buttons and visual tab broken)
- How to use a dropdown to populate a list of post from CPT
- Allow shortcode for custom widget
- Registering a stylesheet inside my WordPress widget
- is_tax() not working in Widget Logic [closed]
- How to position custom dashboard widgets on side column
- WordPress widget title coding
- Filter Text from sidebar widget?
- How to filter widget(s) based on a specific category landing page
- How do I remove/reset all current widgets from the database?
- Search transients through widget
- what is the difference between these two types of widget form method
- Change the background color of my theme widgets
- Change Woocommerce Product Categories Widget ‘Title’ based on Product Category
- Creating a dynamic class name in my custom widget
- WordPress Local to Live and The Missing Widgets!
- Extending the WordPress Recent Posts Widget
- delete widget upon uninstall
- How to paste widget to a specific page
- How do I find out which
- Unable to see Widget Submenu under Appearance with Class Based WP_Widget
- An archive widget, coming from nowhere on my posts and pages
- custom widget not saved to sidebar
- When editing in block editor, the post/article gets under the floating widgets
- Make widget with media upload repeatable
- Is it possible to dynamically output the name of the widgets?
- Apply two different styles to Wiget Titles along with a decorative line
- How Can I Replicate & Register a Widget from the Child Theme
- How to retrieve category ID’s from widget settings?
- Widget to embed youtube video
- Can I use wp_widget_rss_output to show my site’s feed in the dashboard?
- How to make featured area?
- Checking if widget has title not working
- wp_list_categories + widget
- How can I add widgets to the category page?
- Remove default WordPress widgets
- Can I add a widget to the of my site?
- How to show widget in frontend?
- Widget Development – Displaying dropdown content
- Single Widget Multi Sidebar
- An issue with register_sidebar and the admin interface
- page url in shortcode
- iframe/embed vid in text widget loads outside container and moves around when scrolling the page?
- menu in different page in different style
- Widget on home page displays wrong time compared to same widget on inside pages
- Widget logic not working