Well, have you downloaded the widgets plugin?
http://automattic.com/code/widgets/
Also see the documentation on it:
http://automattic.com/code/widgets/use/
I encountered the same issue. And yes, I’ve read every word written on the those two pages.
And I tried to deactivate and reactivate again, still not seeing any link or menu has sidebar widget control.
As far as I understand, the installation of the widget plugin only requires us to put the files to those correct locations and then activate them and then we are ready to go. But apparently, this didn’t work for me. I don’t know what did I miss. Another thing is that, is the default theme Kubrick? I did choose the default theme that comes with the WP 2.0.5 package. I am just not sure what to do now, pretty frustrating.
Just to be clear, here is the list of folders and their contents:
[user@server plugins]$ pwd
/var/www/wordpress-2.0.5/wp-content/plugins
[user@server plugins]$ ll -R
.:
total 56
drwxrwxr-x 4 apache webadmin 4096 Dec 13 11:12 themes
drwxrwxr-x 3 apache webadmin 4096 Dec 13 11:12 widgets
./themes:
total 8
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache webadmin 4096 Dec 13 11:08 classic
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache webadmin 4096 Dec 13 11:08 default
./themes/classic:
total 8
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 75 Dec 13 11:08 functions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 1765 Dec 13 11:08 sidebar.php
./themes/default:
total 20
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 15489 Dec 13 11:08 functions.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 3032 Dec 13 11:08 sidebar.php
./widgets:
total 80
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 4189 Dec 13 11:08 delicious.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 3843 Dec 13 11:08 gsearch.php
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 16334 Dec 13 11:08 README.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 3341 Dec 13 11:08 rss.png
drwxrwxr-x 2 apache webadmin 4096 Dec 13 11:08 scriptaculous
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 41670 Dec 13 11:08 widgets.php
./widgets/scriptaculous:
total 172
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 3361 Dec 13 11:08 builder.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 27959 Dec 13 11:08 controls.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 21859 Dec 13 11:08 dragdrop.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 32194 Dec 13 11:08 effects.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 1101 Dec 13 11:08 MIT-LICENSE
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 47603 Dec 13 11:08 prototype.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 2152 Dec 13 11:08 scriptaculous.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 10790 Dec 13 11:08 slider.js
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache webadmin 12931 Dec 13 11:08 unittest.js
In order for the widgets menu to appear, you need:
a) To have the widget plugin active,
b) To have a widgets-enabled theme.
The default/classic themes that come with WordPress are *not* widgets enabled. This is why the widgets plugin itself comes with replacement files for those two themes, which will make them widgets enabled. Just replace the files in the default and classic folders with the new files from the plugin’s ZIP file.
Ok Otto42, I re-copied the themes from the plugin zip file over to wordpress installation’s theme directory. Nothing’s changed as far as I could tell. And I am pretty sure that I did copy that when I unpacked the plugin zip file. As you may noticed, all the timestamps were the same, which means they were from the same batch. (Only the parent directories had a different timestamp.)
Alright, thanks Otto42. I figured it out. It was my bad, this directory-copying/jiggling task had confused me a lot and I was extracting the themes into a different location than the ones where wordpress was looking. So after I moved the updated versions of themes to overwrite(not a complete overwrite though), it works as it should. Thanks alot for your fast response.
