I’ve taken to the practice of doing something like this whenever I need to create multiple widgets in a theme that all have the same basic parameters.
function create_widget($name, $id, $description) {
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => __( $name ),
'id' => $id,
'description' => __( $description ),
'before_widget' => ' ',
'after_widget' => ' ',
'before_title' => '<h5>',
'after_title' => '</h5>'
));
}
create_widget("Left Footer", "left_widget", "Displays in the left of the footer");
WordPress Educator Zac Gordon 