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1. zszalbot
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hello,

   I'd like to ask for your help in customizing finestripes theme (from themes section) which I really like and would like to continue using it. WordPress tells me it is not widget-aware theme.

   Here's the theme source. How do I make it widget-ready?

   <div id="right">
   <div id="sidebar">
    <ul>
   
     <li><h2><?php _e('Pages'); ?></h2>
     <ul>
       <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>
     </ul>
     </li>
   
     <li><h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
      <ul>
       <?php list_cats() ?>
      </ul>
     </li>
   
    <li><h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>
    	<ul>
   	 <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
    	</ul>
    </li>
   
   <li><h2><?php _e('Links'); ?></h2>
   <ul>
   <?php get_links('-1', '<li>', '</li>', ' ', TRUE, 'url', FALSE); ?>
   </ul>
   </li>
   
   <li><h2>Search</h2>
   <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">
   <input type="text" name="s" id="search" size="15" maxlength="20"/><input type="submit" name="submit" id="searchbut" value="Go" />
   </form>
   </li>
   
     <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if (is_home()) { ?>
     <li><h2><?php _e('Meta'); ?></h2>
      <ul>
       <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
       <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php _e('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.'); ?>"><abbr title="WordPress">WordPress</abbr></a></li>
   <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS Feed</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
       <li><?php wp_meta(); ?></li>
      </ul>
     </li>
   <?php } ?>
   
    </ul>
   </div><!-- Closes the sidebar div-->
   </div><!-- Closes the rightcolumn div-->

   Many thanks in advance!

   zbigniew szalbot

2. Jeremy Clark
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You need to edit your side bar. Here are some instructions on how to edit it.

3. zszalbot
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thank you Jeremy - I did see that page before. let me show what I did.

   I added this to the bottom of functions.php

   <?php
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar();
   ?>

   and also modified finestripes theme like this:

   <div id="right">
   <div id="sidebar">
   <ul id="sidebar">
   <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
           || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
     <li id="about"><h2><?php _e('Pages'); ?></h2>
     <ul>
       <?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>
     </ul>
     </li>
   
     <li id="links"><h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
      <ul>
       <?php list_cats() ?>
      </ul>
     </li>
   
    <li id="links"><h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>
    	<ul>
   	 <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
    	</ul>
    </li>
   
   <li id="links"><h2><?php _e('Blogrolls'); ?></h2>
   <ul>
   <?php get_links('-1', '<li>', '</li>', ' ', TRUE, 'url', FALSE); ?>
   </ul>
   </li>
   
   <li id="search"><h2>Search</h2>
   <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">
   <input type="text" name="s" id="search" size="15" maxlength="20"/><input type="submit" name="submit" id="searchbut" value="Go" />
   </form>
   </li>
   <li id="tags"><h2>Tags</h2>
   <?php STP_Tagcloud(); ?>
   </li>
   
     <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if (is_home()) { ?>
     <li id="links"><h2><?php _e('Meta'); ?></h2>
      <ul>
       <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
       <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php _e('Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.'); ?>"><abbr title="WordPress">WordPress</abbr></a></li>
   <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS Feed</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
       <li><?php wp_meta(); ?></li>
      </ul>
     </li>
   
   <?php } ?>
   
   <?php endif; ?>
   
    </ul>
   </div><!-- Closes the sidebar div-->
   </div><!-- Closes the rightcolumn div-->

   but when I click Presentation > Widgets, I get:
   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.

   Where did I go wrong?

   Thank you!

   zbigniew szalbot

4. Jeremy Clark
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Try swithing this
   

   <?php } ?>
   
   <?php endif; ?>

   To this
   

   <?php endif; ?>
   
   <?php } ?>

5. zszalbot
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thank you for your post. I did change the order of the two entries but to no avail. Any other suggestion? Thank you!

   Actually I was wrong. When I changed the order, I had no more sidebar in the theme. Changing it back to the previous order restores the sidebar.

   zbigniew szalbot

6. zszalbot
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Maybe this Finepress theme is not one that can be converted to being widget-aware? I pasted a default sidebar code from the newest 2.3 WP and it still said that the theme is not widget-aware.

   I got the theme from http://themes.wordpress.net/columns/2-columns/1930/finestripes-10/

   Thank you!

   zbigniew szalbot

7. Jeremy Clark
   Moderator
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I don't know I just downloaded it and added the same code you did and I can add widgets now. I'm going to zip up the theme again and you can download it from here and try it out.

8. zszalbot
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Dear Jeremy,

   How shall I thank you? My mistake was that I hacked functions.php in wp-includes and only having downloaded your zip have I realized that functions.php needs to be created within the theme folder. Well, I really appreciate and thank you very much for your help!!!

   zbigniew szalbot

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