Comments on: How To Wigetize A WordPress Theme

By: Add Widget Support to You’re WordPress Blog

Add Widget Support to You’re WordPress Blog — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:35:34 +0000

[...] the official post from Automattic, as well as one from Gary Conn. So, if you’re using one old-school theme without widget support, and you don’t know [...]

By: Brian Campbell

Brian Campbell — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:45:27 +0000

Thanks for this Gary. I’ve been looking for something like this to link to for awhile.

By: JasonGW

JasonGW — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:52:04 +0000

FYI Garry, I emailed you the code

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By: JasonGW

JasonGW — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:04:29 +0000

I’ve noted one other problem that occurred on my server. When editing code through a shared host account that uses cPanel (I use http://www.imhosted.com), for some reason when you save it makes changes to the code inside the PHP functions, getting rid of the ‘ marks and replacing them with a numeric code. I got around this by just doing my editing in Notepad on PC and then uploading that file (I’m sure Linux users could do the same in VI or their editor of choice). Those go in untouched for some reason.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:00:53 +0000

Jason email me the code and I will add it into your comment for you. You can email me at garryconn@gmail.com

Thanks for the help.

By: JasonGW

JasonGW — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:02:54 +0000

OK that WOULD have shown you an example that works, except for the fact that the code tags apparently aren’t working here…

By: JasonGW

JasonGW — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:50:06 +0000

I just sorted out the problem with what’s posted above. Your UL tags need to be nested inside of DIV tags. I followed these directions exactly but kept having the message that my theme doesn’t identify widgets correctly. Then I looked at another theme that DID work and the sole difference I found was that its UL tags were nested inside DIV tags, with a DIV ID of “sidebar”. Once I did that, it worked perfectly!

Here’s an example that WORKS:

By: Richie

Richie — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:54:34 +0000

this is a very good info for the wordpress user..thanks garry

By: brucez

brucez — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:18:20 +0000

Hi Garry,

I like the idea, but on the Benevolence theme, it works to make the widgets show up in the Design>Widgets menu but it doesn’t implement it into the theme when you actually look at the blog.

Just wondering if you have any ideas that would specifically help with this theme.

Thanks,

BruceZ

By: bod

bod — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:08:11 +0000

Hi Garry,

Thanks for your great article. It works!!
I will copy this article to my blog and translate to my language.
THANKS MAN!

@Gene Steinberg
I got same problem, my blog simply came up with an empty page. No content.
I’ve fixed it.
When we copied scripts above and pasted it,

will automatically changed to

(’register_sidebar’) will automatically changed to (.register_sidebar.)
you must change the dot “.” to “‘”

this happen too for this script

Hope this fixed your problem.

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