I wish I had a custom widget area

  • So I’m a bit lost here. This is making me a bit crazy, seems simple but it apparently isn’t. Of course, may be me!!

    Running a (basically) non-profit healthcare site. https://www.thehealthcareblog.com I’d like to create a new custom widget area in my template (I suppose I should say theme) to display images and other content, but the developer who worked on the project last hardcoded a lot of our sidebar content into the theme. Can anybody give me a quick walk through or pointer that help me do this?

    If you’re curious, the area where I’d like to drop in my new area is in the right column on our three column layout – at the top of the column above the 300 x 250 ad unit …

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  • Can you see the Widget options within the sites control panel?
    If not then the designer/developer may have set up a CMS plugin which is preventing you from seeing certain facilities within the back-end of the site.
    once logged into the site go to https://www.thehealthcareblog.com/wp-admin/widgets.php and you should see Primary & Secondary widget areas – most likely Primary will be the first of the sidebars (the narrow one) Secondary should be the second, wider one.
    At the top of that area you may see the widget that brings in the advert, place whatever widget/content above that you want to show there, save and go to the site to check it.

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