Title: Theme not widget ready
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme not widget ready

 *  [sacredthree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredthree/)
 * (@sacredthree)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-widget-ready-1/)
 * Okay, I am lost. I am using a theme (daydreams) that is not widget-ready and 
   I can’t seem to edit my sidebar without widgetizing it. I’ve looked over [this page](http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes)
   and I’m just lost. I know next to nothing about PHP.
 * I put this into my sidebar.php file:
 * <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
    || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
 * And then this in my functions.php file:
 * <?php
    if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ) register_sidebar(); ?>
 * And nothing changed. I have no idea what to do from here. Can anyone help?

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 *  Thread Starter [sacredthree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredthree/)
 * (@sacredthree)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-widget-ready-1/#post-1051016)
 * Daydreams theme can be found here: [http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/daydreams](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/daydreams)
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-widget-ready-1/#post-1051074)
 * Open sidebar.php. Locate the code block that you want to replace with widgets.
   Immediately before this code block, add:
 * `<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>`
 * Immediately after the code block, add:
 * `<?php endif;?>`
 *  Thread Starter [sacredthree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredthree/)
 * (@sacredthree)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-widget-ready-1/#post-1051129)
 * Didn’t work. 🙁 Thanks anyway.
 *  Thread Starter [sacredthree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredthree/)
 * (@sacredthree)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-widget-ready-1/#post-1051158)
 * For those that may see this in the future, check out [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208291?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/208291?replies=4)

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 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [sacredthree](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sacredthree/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-not-widget-ready-1/#post-1051158)
 * Status: not resolved

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