It sounds like you are trying to create a custom WordPress panel that will display your footer widget areas. To achieve this, you will need to create a custom section in your WordPress Customizer that will be responsible for displaying the widgets. You can use the WP_Customize_Section class to create your custom section, and the … Read more
Got this working on a test site by downloading the coral dark theme and making a child theme for it. Making a child theme might seem a little daunting if you’ve never made wordpress themes before, but it’s the most sustainable and overall best way to do this in my opinion. And it’s actually pretty … Read more
Can’t edit the widgets sidebar or footer
You need to make changes in search.php page and call the sidebar you need to show over there.
Add custom settings to widget areas
my website didn’t show the defult right sidebars
Because of the way templates are rendered in WordPress it won’t be possible to know if a page has a sidebar until after that sidebar has been rendered. This is because code in templates can’t ‘know’ what code exists later in rendering sequence. What I would recommend is determining what the conditions are which your … Read more
I’m a noob. I named the Taxonomy wrong… It’s post_format not post-format
I decided to use Widget Logic instead of so many sidebars and that seems to have at leat circumvented the issue.
How to inject a virtual widget (i.e. without adding it to the database) to the sidebar