Sidebar woes…

  • Resolved bgoldstein

    (@bgoldstein)


    15 years, 10 months ago

    I will start off by saying that I am very new to WordPress. I have installed one of the free themes off of WordPress.com. No problems there. It came by default, with a search, categories, archive, and meta box.

    When I install a widget, all of the default stuff is gone. How do I get the widgets to add to the stuff thats part of the sidebar by default? Does this happen with all themes? Can anyone point me towards doc on this?

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  • He there. If you have a WordPress.com blog, you need to go to their forums: en.forums.wordpress.com

    When you have WordPress installed yourself on your own webserver, this is the place to be, but then I wonder how you got a theme from wp.com.

    Thread Starter bgoldstein

    (@bgoldstein)

    I downloaded from www.ads-software.com and installed on my web hosting space. I guess I haven’t done anything from wordpress.com. I got the theme from going to www.ads-software.com >> extend >> themes.

    Does that help?

    Ok, you wrote .com yourself.
    It sounds to me like the theme you uses has a coded sidebar, so the searchbox, archive links, etc. are all put in the sidebar.php (or however the file is called). When you add one widget, the “widgitised” sidebar overwrites the coded one (you can’t combine the two), so you have to add all widgets until the sidebar contains everything that you want.

    Thread Starter bgoldstein

    (@bgoldstein)

    Ah ok, that is what I thought was happening but wasn’t sure. Is there a way to take the code from the widget and add it to sidebar.php? Or vice-versa.

    Thread Starter bgoldstein

    (@bgoldstein)

    Never mind. Thanks for the help though. I checked the readme of the particular widget and it gave the actual app tag to add to sidebar.php.

    You CAN use both code and widgets, there’s some sollutions on the forums somewhere, but I advice to just use widgets. If you want to add code to the sidebar, just add a text widget (you can have as many as you like) and put the code there.

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