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I just got a paid wordpress account, but I want to use the same theme as my free account I had. Unfortunately, I found a version of my theme that doesn't support widgets, which is unfortunate because the one I was using for my free account worked perfectly fine.

Does anyone know where I can find the updated version of ChaoticSoul that supports widgets? Or know how to fix the one that I have so that it does?

there is a tutorial on how to widgetize a theme here

Thanks, although I'm having a problem. I finally got it to at least allow to me to select widgets in the dashboard, which I couldn't do before.

But when I view my blog, I still don't see the widgets in the sidebar. I'm not sure if it has to do with the stylesheet step in the process, which is the one I'm having trouble with.

It tells me to look for the h3 styling, but I only see h1 and h2 in my stylesheet even though h3 is what's being used in my sidebar list.

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: normal; }

h1 { color: #fff; font-size: 2em; margin: 0 0 8px; }
h1:before, h1:after { content: " . . "; color: #444; }
h1 span { color: #bd934f; }

h2 { color: #bd934f; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0; padding: 1px 0; display: inline; border-bottom: 1px solid #35302a; }
.post h2 a { color: #bd934f; }
.post h2.first { font-size: 1.75em; }

.widecolumn h2.title {
display: block;
padding: 13px 10px;
background: #1b1814;
margin: 0 0 15px;
border-bottom: 1px solid #35302a;
font-size: 1.75em; }

.description { color: #666; font-weight: bold; }

.comments h3 { margin: 0 0 10px 0; color: #bd934f; }

Did you follow this step?

One last step that is seldom needed is in cases where h2 is not used in the default unordered list as heading. Say h3 was used as in our example, the easiest hack to address this would be to open style.css and look for styling for h3, copy and paste it right below (or above) the h3 styling and call it h2 instead. For example, say you find the following code for h3 in style.css:

h3{
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 1.15em;
font-weight: normal;
}

Copy paste and make it h2 like below:

h2{
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 1.15em;
font-weight: normal;
}

h3{
color: #FFFFFF;
font-size: 1.15em;
font-weight: normal;
}

Well see, that's the problem I'm having. Above, I posted exactly what's in my stylesheet. I see h1 and h2, but no h3--so I can't follow that last step.

But the point is you create the h3 by copying the h2

thus you would add

h3 { color: #bd934f; font-size: 1.25em; margin: 0; padding: 1px 0; display: inline; border-bottom: 1px solid #35302a; }
.post h2 a { color: #bd934f; }
.post h2.first { font-size: 1.75em; }

to your style sheet

Ohhh, okay. God, I feel like such an idiot now. Haha, thanks.

I would be very interested in the widget ready ChaoticSoul theme. Could you provide a link for me to download?

I followed the exact directions above, but still have the message in my admin under widgets:
You are seeing this message because the theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions.
I copy/pasted the h2 and made it h3. and followed all directions above.
Any insights?
Why in the world would they not have ChaoticSoul widget ready? Especially when the free WordPress hosted version is fabulous!
Also, does the fix above enable the ability to use the youtube movie insertion tool?

i am also extremely frustrated by not being able to use widgets after purchasing my hosting with wordpress installed. If anyone has successfully done it for Chaotic Soul...I would be willing to pay them for the widgetized theme updated! Please let me know thanks!

Here is the code for the ChaoticSoul sidebar theme file:

<div id="sidebar">

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>

<?php if (is_single()) { ?>

<h3>About This Post</h3>
<p class="postmetadata alt">
<small>
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You'll need to download this plugin, and follow the instructions:
http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2004/08/17/time-since-plugin/ */
/* $entry_datetime = abs(strtotime($post->post_date) - (60*120)); echo time_since($entry_datetime); echo ' ago'; */ ?>
on <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php the_time() ?>
and is filed under <?php the_category(', ') ?>.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the <?php comments_rss_link('RSS 2.0'); ?> feed.

<?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Both Comments and Pings are open ?>
You can leave a response, or " rel="trackback">trackback from your own site.

<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Only Pings are Open ?>
Responses are currently closed, but you can " rel="trackback">trackback from your own site.

<?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Comments are open, Pings are not ?>
You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
// Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>
Both comments and pings are currently closed.

<?php } edit_post_link('Edit this entry.','',''); ?>

</small>
</p>

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<ul class="navigation">
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