add widget footer in wordpress theme

Quesiton:

I wanted to use widgets in the footer of my WordPress theme but my wordpress theme didn’t come with a footer-sidebar by default. I didn’t really wanted to change the theme just because of that. So I hacked the wordpress theme to introduce footer-sidebars. If you are looking for a tutorial that explains how you can add sidebars/widgets to the footer of your WordPress theme then keep reading.

There are really three main parts to introducing a footer sidebar/widget area in your theme:

1. Registering the Sidebar(s) in the WordPress Theme
2. Inserting the Sidebars In the WordPress Theme
3. Putting some style into the sidebars

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