adding multiple sidebars on pages

Question

I am using twentyten theme and I want there to be two sidebars on my page - one on the left and the second on the right.
Can any one tell me how to do that?

Answer 1

Thirty Ten is a child theme of Twenty Ten and could be excellent for you as it comes with 3 columns as you want.

Answer 2

There's more information about custom theme modification to add sidebars on another thread here

The link is potintig to the tutorial here which I found quite useful, that basically tells you to change functions.php so register_sidebars creates the number of sidebars you want

From:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )
    register_sidebar();

To:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') ) {
    register_sidebar('2');
    register_sidebar('3');
    register_sidebar('4');
}