Bootplate comes with just a handful of Widget areas used in sidebars and footers. If you’d like a heck of a lot more widget areas than that, we recommend installing the Custom Sidebars plugin by @wpmudev.
Custom Sidebars allows you to create all the widgetized areas you need, your own custom sidebars, configure them adding widgets, and replace the default sidebars on the posts or pages you want in just few clicks.
With over 400,000 downloads and 200,000+ active installs, this plugin has been thoroughly tested in the wild and, of course, tested with the latest version of Bootplate to ensure compatibility.
There is a Pro version, but the free version is pretty rocking. For example, this plugin allows you to custom customize every widget area by setting new default sidebars for a group of posts or pages easily, keeping the chance of changing them individually.
For example, you could change…
- Sidebars for all the posts that belong to a category.
- Sidebars for all the posts that belong to a post-type.
- Sidebars for archives (by category, post-type, author, tag).
- Sidebars for the main blog page.
- Sidebars for search results.