Wordpress: How to Create widget area in Admin Panel

Question

I want to create a new placeholder / area for widgets in Wordpress admin panel.

Please have a look in screenshot i provided below for better understanding.

As you see there are total 3 place holders for widgets. I want to add more custom placeholders like 4th, 5th..

Also I want to add the placeholder in my theme to display widgets.

For example i created new 4th place holder in admin panel. And there are total 2 widgets in that placeholder. And i want to display all of widgets of 4th placeholder in them with its order.

Answer 1

Widget areas can be added by using the register_sidebar function:

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'so16750248_register_sidebar' );
function so16750248_register_sidebar(){
    register_sidebar( array(
        'name' => __( 'Another Sidebar' ),
        'id' => 'another-sidebar',
        'description' => __( 'Some widgets here.', 'my_textdomain' ),
        'before_title' => '<h1>',
        'after_title' => '</h1>'
    ) );
}

To call the widget area in a template, use dynamic_sidebar:

dynamic_sidebar( 'another-sidebar' );