There’s at least 2 ways you can add a custom widget which displays after the content on single posts in any Elegant theme.
In this post, we’ll add the new widget area directly to the single.php file which we’ll copy over to a child theme before modifying.
Note: The code in this tutorial has been tested on the Foxy theme using a child theme. The child theme saves your custom code/modifications from being lost if the parent theme is updated in the future.
There’s 2 steps involved:
- Register a new sidebar widget area in your child themes functions file.
- Add the dynamic sidebar wrapped in a div directly to your single.php file
1. Register Widget
Simply copy this PHP code from the view raw link and paste in your functions.php file using a code editor. Preferably use a child theme which won’t be over written if your parent theme is updated.
Here’s a child theme for Foxy ( you can download the zip from Github ) which already includes the after post widget code so you can simply install it after the parent theme is installed.
Download Zip – Foxy Child Theme
No need to read on if you download & install the Foxy child theme zip after the parent theme.
2. Add Dynamic Sidebar To Single.php File
Add this PHP around Line 34 of your single.php file.
If you’re not adding this widget to Foxy, add the code after this line:
<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>and before the code for the comments in any other Elegant Theme.
Code Not Working
View the code in the single.php & functions.php files on Github to check against your own.
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