Registering sidebars

The sidebars are areas (managed in "Appearance > Widgets") where you can allocate customizable widgets and display it in the specified place.

You should register your sidebars inside app/Setup/sidebars.php file with register_sidebar function within widgets_init action hook. Inside sidebars.php you will see an example sidebar. Customize it to your needs or add another one.

namespace Tonik\Theme\App\Structure;

use function Tonik\Theme\App\config;

function register_widget_areas()
{
  register_sidebar([
    'id' => 'sidebar',
    'name' => __('Sidebar', config('textdomain')),
    'description' => __('Website sidebar', config('textdomain')),
  ]);
}
add_action('widgets_init', 'Tonik\Theme\App\Structure\register_widget_areas');

Usage

To render sidebar content just run dynamic_sidebar function with a previously registered sidebar name.

dynamic_sidebar('sidebar');