Register Widget in WordPress -10

Widgets are blocks of content that you can add to your site’s sidebars, footers, and other areas of your website where you want. These are created to provide a simple, easy and user friendly to control the design and content of their site without doing code.  register_sidebar function is used to register a widget with any name and add_action use widgets_init hook to register the widget with specific name.

//widgets_init function to insert a widget

function sidebar()

{

    register_sidebar(array(

        ‘id’ => ‘SidebarforBlog’,

        ‘name’ => __(‘SidebarforBlog’),

        ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s mb-3″>’,

        ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div></div>’,

        ‘before_title’ => ‘<h3 class=”widget-title font-weight-bold” style=”font-size:20px;”>’,

        ‘after_title’ => ‘</h3><div class=”card p-2″> ‘,

    )

    );

}

add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘sidebar’);

Steps to add content in widgets

Step 1: Open admin panel

• Go to this page: http://localhost/[project-name]/wp-admin/

Step 2: Click on Appearance → Widgets

• Here you see the widgets ‘SidebarforBlog’.
• Now you can drag and drop any widget from the available widgets
• Then Save it.

Step 3: Call the widget

<?php dynamic_sidebar(‘SidebarforBlog’);?>