How to add a widget area before the footer of your StudioPress Genesis theme on WordPress

If you are using a StudioPress Genesis theme on your WordPress website you may want to add a widget area before the footer. You can then add this code to your functions.php file to add a widget area before the footer of your StudioPress Genesis theme without using a plugin on there. It may be a good idea to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to it on there.

/**
 * Add widget area before footer
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
genesis_register_sidebar( array(
	'id'          => 'widget-before-footer',
	'name'        => __( 'Before Footer Widget', 'yourtheme' ),
	'description' => __( 'This is the widget before the footer.', 'yourtheme' ),
) );
function addwidgetbeforefooter() {
	genesis_widget_area( 'widget-before-footer', array(
			'before' => '<div class="widget-before-footer widget-area">',
			'after'  => '</div>',
		) );
}
add_action('genesis_before_footer', 'addwidgetbeforefooter');

If you want to style the widget you can do that in css using .widget-before-footer in your stylesheet or you can read this post on how to style your custom widget area on your website for more information on how to do that on there. You can replace the yourtheme title with the name of your WordPress theme.

Now if that works for you it would add the new widget area to your StudioPress Genesis theme before the footer on there.