Integrating widgets into custom column

  • Resolved degran

    (@degran)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    So I’ll be the first to say there is a good chance I’m going about this all ass backwards. I’m taking my first wack at developing custom templates/a theme for my wordpress site and I’ve encountered some issues. I’ve got a HomePageTemp.php which is a template I’m using for a custom homepage. It’s composed of 3 CSS created columns and has mostly non-wordpress operated static content on it barring the content() and wp_header() hooks. I’ve got sub pages which are using the primary/secondary aside that I’d like to leave be so my question is, can I a.) create a third aside which i can integrate into my CSS column, or b.) is there a standard for widgets that would allow me to simply drop a hook into the template and be good to go?

    If you need any code or clarification I’ll gladly supply what I can.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    a) I don’t see why not. Just create anew widget capable area via register_sidebar.

    b) Not sure what you mean by “a standard”. Are you trying to create a new custom widget?

    Thread Starter degran

    (@degran)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    a.) I haven’t tried register_sidebar yet, in fact I wasn’t aware it existed so I’ll give that a go.

    b.) No, I’ve got an events widget that I want to slap into the column but wasn’t able to find a hook for it, just wondering if most people implemented them in their widgets or not.

    Thanks for the help, hopefully this’ll lead me down the right path.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Sorry. Didn’t mean to fire info over your head like that. I thought it was something you’d used before.

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar

    You might also want to have a look at Widgetizing_Themes. Although this page references sidebars, it’s exactly the same process whether you’re adding a widget-capable area to a sidebar, the footer or any page/post template.

    With regard to your events widget, in your shoes, I’d be creating a new widget capable area in whatever template I wanted to drop the widget into.

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