I followed your steps to add a footer widget and it was successfully created, however, after moving several categories in there they are all placed in vertical position, I played around and couldn't figure out how to make them in horizontal separate positions, could you please lay out the steps to get it horizontally.

Go to ato->export/import settings and export your settings and attach them to a reply.
What version of atahualpa?

Hi juggledad,

I attached the file to this reply.

I use Atahualpa 3.5.3

Thanks

you used the minimum code to create your widget area ie

<?php bfa_widget_area('name=My new widget area'); ?>

this will create one widget area and all widgets you add will be stacked on top of each other.

If you want to have several widgets side by side, you need to create the new widget area with cells using the 'cells=nn' option. If you wanted to have two widgets in the footer you could say

<?php bfa_widget_area('name=My_footer_widgets&cells=2'); ?>

this would create TWO side by side widget areas and you could put one widget in one widget area and the other in a second widget area.

If you have already created a widget area, I suggest you
1) remove the widgets from it
2) delete the code to create the widget area
3) go to ato->Add new WIDGET AREAS and delete that widget area, THEN start over and add your new widget area code.

Thanks, now its all done