Widget in center pane

well….widgetizing is widgetizing really…. things will differ theme by theme….but here’s a generic run through of how I add widget areas wherever I want them.

first off, this goes in functions.php (between the <?php tags)

register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'widget1',
        'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</div>',
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));

you can use the same code over and over (just change the widget1 name to a different name for each area)

Thenk in your template (footer.php, index.php, header.php, etc) put this code where you want your new widget area to appear.

<div class="widget1">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('widget1') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>

So now it’s registered, you can put a widget in it, and you have it on your template….but you gotta style it. That’s the part that is really theme specific…for instance, this worked fine for me:

.widget1 {
        float: left;
        width: 340px;
        }

but you’ll need to tweak it of course