24.Dec.2006 at 5:28 pm | Sunny
Why The “Widget” Fuss?
“Widgets” are used to personalize your WordPress site without knowing HTML, it is a neat plugin created by Matt et. al. and is fast becoming a “must have” for new theme designers to be able to sell (or in this case give away for free!)
Widgetizing a theme is rather simple, just as long as your sidebar markup is as below:
< ul id="sidebar" >
< li id="sponsor" >
< h2 >Sponsor< /h2 >
< ul >
< li >< a href=http://www.getm.org >Example< /a >< /li >
< /ul >
< /li >
< /ul >
That is, the entire sidebar is an unordered list and the titles are in < h2 > tags!
All you then need to do is, add two lines of code:
< ?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
and
< ? php endif; ? >
as shown below:
< ul id="sidebar" >
< ?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?> < li id="sponsor" >
< h2 >Sponsor< /h2 >
< ul>
< li >< a href=http://www.getm.org >Example< /a >< /li >
< /ul >
< /li >
< ? php endif; ? >
< /ul >
Of course we are assuming you have only one sidebar, if you have two, then each column will have a code such as:
< ? php /* WordPress Widget Support */ if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') and dynamic_sidebar(1)) { } else { ? >
closing with
< ?php } ? >
That’s it
1. milo | December 25, 2006 #
Good to know, is it a must do?