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1. katetoon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello

   A friend built my website for me in WordPress and I'm having trouble fixing various things up. I have my own template - which might be the problem

   My first problem is I'd like to display things in my right hand bar:
   - Tag cloud
   - Recent posts

   But I can't work out to how to do it.
   Can anyone help me?

   Thanks
   Kate

2. motivatebusiness
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hello,

   The first thing you need to find out is if your theme is "Widget Ready". You can check by clicking on "Widgets" on the left side of your admin panel. It can be found under "Appearance". If your theme is widget ready, you will be able to apply the "Tags" and "Recent Posts" widgets by clicking the "Add" button next to the respective titles. Then you must click "Save Changes" on the right hand side.

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3. katetoon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   hello

   No it isn't widget ready. And the instructions on how to make it so have baffled me already.

   I'll try you on skype
   This is very nice of you

   Kate

4. katetoon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Skype fail
   Are you able to post back anything on how ot make your side bar widget ready?

   Thanks
   Kate

5. motivatebusiness
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Sorry, I just got your message. Please log back onto skype

6. motivatebusiness
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   To make your theme widget ready, follow these instructions:

   In your functions.php file ( Please Note: If you don't have a functions.php file you will need to create one ), add the following code:
   

   <?php
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
   register_sidebar(array(
   'before_widget' => '',
   'after_widget' => '',
   'before_title' => '<h2>',
   'after_title' => '</h2>',
   ));
   ?>

   Then in your sidebar.php file, add the following code:

   <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
   
   The sidebar stuff goes in between, and then…
   
   <?php endif; ?>

   Begin a chat with me on skype again if you need further assistance. Very best regards,
   Richard

7. katetoon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi

   THanks so much for that. It has kind of worked

   I wanted to keep the thinks I had in my side bar already so i put the statement a bit lower down

   Like this:

   <!-- begin sidebar -->

   <h3>Search</h3>
   <div id="search">
   <form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
   <input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="20" /> <input type="submit" value="»" />
   </form>
   </div>
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   <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

   </div>

   <div class="both"></div>
   <?php endif; ?>

   </div>

   <!-- end sidebar -->

   Is that okay?

   Now it lets me add widgets but when I click save changes in WordPress admin it comes up with this informaiton

   Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /nfs/c04/h04/mnt/66816/domains/katetoon.com/html/wp-content/themes/toon/functions.php:19) in /nfs/c04/h04/mnt/66816/domains/katetoon.com/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850

   Also the side bar column has gone a bit wide now and its messed up my footter

   Any help would be so apprecoated

   Thanks
   Kate

8. katetoon
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   YOU ARE WONDERFUL

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