Add Another Widget Section (Gadget Holder) To Blogger Layout

You may have wanted to add a new widget holding section to blogger layout which enables you to add more gadgets like Ad sense, Followers ...

You may have wanted to add a new widget holding section to blogger layout which enables you to add more gadgets like Ad sense, Followers Gadget or just HTML/ JavaScript widget. Why is there a need to do this? Well say you download a custom blogger template of your choice and there is not a Add a gadget section where you want then this tweak will enable you to add one by yourself.

Have a look at the picture below. Notice that there is no widget section as mentioned in the red highlight. We will proceed and add the widget section at the place.

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 Once the widget section is added it would look something like this.

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So lets get started.

Step 1:

Go to Design >> Edit HTML and download your template for backup purposes. Now tick the check box.

Now find the following piece of code for side bar.

<div id='sidebar-wrapper'> or as in my case <div id='rsidebar-wrapper'>

Step 2:

The code for the sidebar depends upon your template. Now just below these codes add the following code.
 Thats all. Now click save template and go to Desgine and you would notice another widget section available to add more widgets. You can also add these sections to where ever you want in your template like in header, above body, footer. Just find the code relevant to that section in Edit HTML and place the widget code below them.

<b:section class='NewContainer' id='NewContainer'/>

Hope that helped. For any questions leave your comments below.