I'm glad it worked out for

Megan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:44:34 +0000

I'm glad it worked out for you!

Megan, I'm so impressed (and

FairyBlogMother — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:36:33 +0000

Megan, I'm so impressed (and appreciative) that you took the time to make this into a full-blown tutorial!

I finally had the chance to get back to it last night, and I was able to put in a multi-column footer with very little trouble. Now all that remains is some minor format tweaking... and for our main author to decide which of her content she'd like to feature in this new area.

Thanks so much for helping us increase the "real estate" on our site. The multi-column footer will be a great way to feature additional content right from the home page (and every page). : )

its good! I also like the

manalodennis — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 09:58:51 +0000

its good!

I also like the idea. Something popped up in my mind to work with this kind of layout.

thanks for the share.

This topic has inspired the

Megan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:35:10 +0000

This topic has inspired the latest article at A Padded Cell:

http://www.apaddedcell.com/how-create-multi-column-wigitized-footer-word...

The article includes the instructions I posted above, as well as instructions for creating the columns using CSS.

It actually depends on how

Megan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:00:00 +0000

It actually depends on how your theme is set up. Try it at the start of your footer.php file. You may have to make some other changes to the template files to get this to look right.

Now that the footer is in

Megan — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:59:11 +0000

Now that the footer is in your widgets admin area you can add widgets to it there. Once you've done that, take a look at the code that was generated on your page. You'll see each widget wrapped in a div tag with some unique identifiers as I described above. You can then use these to target those div's with CSS. Take a look at the code on my site to see how I did mine.

The code Megan gave you is

greg — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:20:27 +0000

The code Megan gave you is to go within the function.php file, not footer.php.
Wordpress automatically looks for a functions php file within your theme folder, and loads anything in that file if found.

So it would be in:
/wp-content/wp-themes/name _of_your_theme/functions.php

It is possible there is no functions.php file there, this depends on the theme you are using. If there isn't you will have to create one.

I found out why I had two

FairyBlogMother — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:45:23 +0000

I found out why I had two footers... I'd just duplicated the code; but now I've removed the double. So now I have two sidebars (as before) and just one footer (acting as a sidebar). Now I need to figure out how to make three areas into which I can drop widgets (like Megan's). --A

I took it out for now, but

FairyBlogMother — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:07:59 +0000

I took it out for now, but I'll put it back and try again if someone can advise me exactly WHERE in my footer.php file I need to put the code that Megan provided, above:

<?php
 if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
        || !dynamic_sidebar('Homepage footer') )
?>

Thanks! --A

I must have two footers

FairyBlogMother — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:17:47 +0000

I must have two footers defined in there now. One is wonky/offset. Help? Gracias!