This post is published in response to a WordPress support thread, requesting such a functionality (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/338629)

Although the title of the post states that it is a tutorial, I haven’t really tested the following code extensively. It works on my test environment as well as a live blog ...

I was looking around in the WordPress support forums the other day and the question of how to add a second dynamic sidebar came up.

This is probably quite a common question, and it’s definitely one of the few things that I looked for when dynamic sidebars were introduced in WordPress. ...