If you email it to me, I’ll tell you what to do. No trouble. Adding widgets to a theme is very easy, you’ll be shocked at how simple it is once you see how to do it. 🙂
otto@ottodestruct.com
Thanks for the reply. I will send asap.
Okay, I got your theme and modified it and sent it back to you. Here’s a quick overview of the changes:
First, I added a new functions.php file, since you didn’t have one. Here’s the content of that file:
<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
?>
That’s it. Nothing complicated. All it does is to check that you have the widgets plugin activated and if you do, then it tells the widgets plugin you have a sidebar.
Then I took a look at your sidebar.php. You have a fairly standard sidebar. The whole thing is basically one big Unordered List. This makes it trivial, all I did was to add:
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
at the top, after the UL, and then add:
<?php endif; ?>
at the bottom, just before the /UL.
This code causes your sidebar to get replaced with the widgets sidebar, if it exists.
That’s really all there is to it. Straightforward example from the explanation here: http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/
Now, note that after you activate the widgets plugin, the sidebar you currently have will be gone, replaced with the widgets sidebar. That is, of course, the whole point. 🙂
Thanks so much Otto!! You will be credited appropriately! Thanks again! And it seems very easy from your example.
