Edward Caissie

Add a widget area to the footer of any theme by way of the <code>wp_footer</code> action hook. Works just like the widget areas commonly created with code in the functions.php template file. 
* Copyright 2010-2016 Edward Caissie (email : edward.caissie@gmail.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, 
 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
You may NOT assume that you can use any other version of the GPL.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
 GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
The license for this software can also likely be found here: 
 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

BNS Add Widget

Add a widget area to the footer of any theme.

A collection of shortcodes and helper functions to provide some additional output and compatibilities.
The current version of BNS Helpers includes the following:
<ul>
<li>Allows Text Widgets to parse shortcode structures</li>
<li>Turns on the <code>dashicons</code> option in BNS Login (https://wordpress.org/plugins/bns-login) replacing its text output</li>
<li>Adds the <code>[ child_pages ]</code> shortcode to provide a list of child-pages of the current page</li>
<li>Adds the <code>[ dropdown_child_pages ]</code> shortcode to provide a drop-down list of child-pages of the current page</li>
<li>Adds the <code>[ tool_tip ]</code> shortcode to provide easy hover effect balloon text wrapped by the shortcode</li>
</ul>
<h4>Copyright 2015 Edward Caissie (email : edward.caissie@gmail.com)</h4>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, 
 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
You may NOT assume that you can use any other version of the GPL.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 
 GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 
 along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software 
 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
The license for this software can also likely be found here: 
 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
<h4>Screenshot Source</h4>
Screenshots were captured using the latest version of Opus Primus (https://wordpress.org/themes/opus-primus) as the baseline

BNS Helpers

A collections of shortcodes and other helpful functions

BNS Add Widget vs BNS Helpers