Without a link to the theme, it’s difficult to tell you exactly how to widgetize it.
I’ve read the instructions on Automatic over and over trying to figure this out on my own because I know the forums are busy. still can’t figure it out.
If someone could show me where to insert the beginning and ending ‘if’ statement to make the 2 columns on the right widget friendly, I’d really appreciate your help. (thanks)
<!-- begin sidebar -->
<div id="rightcol">
<div id="topper">
<h2 id="about">About me</h2>
<p> <br>about text.</p>
<p class="right"><a href="#" class="more"></a></p>
</div>
<div id="secondcol">
<h2 id="news">Last post</h2>
<ul>
<li><?php get_archives('postbypost', 10); ?> </li>
</ul><br/>
<h2 id="news">Pages</h2>
<ul>
<li><?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="thirdcol">
<h2 id="links">Categories</h2>
<ul>
<li><?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','') ?></li>
</ul><br/>
<h2 id="links">Archives</h2>
<ul>
<li><?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?></li>
</ul><br/>
<ul>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>
</ul>
</div> <!-- Ends the third column -->
<!-- end sidebar -->
Put this in functions.php (no blank lines are allowed outside the php tags in this file!):
<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebars(2, array(
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '<br />',
'before_title' => '<h2 id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_title' => '</h2>',
));
?>
Then change the sidebar.php as follows:
Change this:
<div id="secondcol">
<h2 id="news">Last post</h2>
into this:
<div id="secondcol">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : ?>
<h2 id="news">Last post</h2>
Change this:
</ul>
</div>
<div id="thirdcol">
<h2 id="links">Categories</h2>
<ul>
into this:
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div id="thirdcol">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : ?>
<h2 id="links">Categories</h2>
<ul>
And change this:
</ul>
</div> <!-- Ends the third column -->
<!-- end sidebar -->
into this:
</ul>
<?php endif; ?>
</div> <!-- Ends the third column -->
<!-- end sidebar -->
Otto42 – thank you so much for you help.
