Add more widget areas to a theme

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what’s the best approach to add more widget areas to a theme? currently, my theme has 2 columns that display the widgets, but I’d like to extend it to 4 for example.

It currently looks like this:
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And I’d like it to look like this:
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All the widgets of this theme are located above the footer. The theme is called Time by s5themes.com. The widget initializer is not located in the functions.php as far as I know. Is this a simple fix at all? thanks!

Edit: Now that the sidebar is displaying in the theme, I think the rest of how each sidebar is shown is located in the style.css. Thanks.

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  1. You have to add this code in the functions.php file:

    /**
 * Register new sidebar
 *
 */
function new_sidebar_widget_init() {

register_sidebar( array(
    'name' => 'new-sidebar',
    'id' => 'new-sidebar',
    'before_widget' => '<div id="new-sidebar">',
    'after_widget' => '</div>',
    'before_title' => '',
    'after_title' => '',
) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'new_sidebar_widget_init' );

    and then call the sidebar from a template to display it:

    <?php  dynamic_sidebar( 'new-sidebar' ); ?>

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