In response to the current state of the American economy many companies are looking for innovative methods of reducing costs. A business looking to develop or overhaul their corporate web presence should consider shedding their expensive content management system for a lower cost alternative. Companies have heard a great deal in the last few years about the benefits of open-source. The recent culture of belt-tightening that has spread through all major industries provides companies with an excellent opportunity to explore these technologies.

Here at Brolly, we have just launched a new corporate website for Aurora Importing and Distributing, a medium sized Canadian food importing business, built entirely on the WordPress platform.

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I’m putting together my first WordPress theme which requires three dynamic sidebars (don’t ask!!). For some reason I can’t figure out how to add the other two dynamic sidebars.. Could you help me please?

Adding in multiple sidebars is fairly straightforward and you can create as many as you need.

Locate your functions.php file in your theme and add the following code:

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<?php
     if(function_exists('register_sidebar'))
          register_sidebar(array(
          'name' => 'Sidebar One', // The sidebar name to register
          'before_widget' => '<div class="widget">',
          'after_widget' => '</div>',
          'before_title' => '<h3>',
          'after_title' => '</h3>',
     ));
?>

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