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If your WordPress doesn’t support the footer widgets. If you want to use widgets in your WordPress theme’s footer, your WordPress theme didn’t come with a footer-sidebar by default.
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.
Step 1 - Add three more widget positions in your footer
Open your functions.php file, and search for [ register_sidebars ]; then add the following lines under it:
Step 2 - Add the extra widget positions to your theme’s footer
Open your footer.php file and add the following lines :
Step 3: Style the new footer widgets
Open your style.css file and add the following style for it: