How do you make a theme “Widget Aware”?

  • Heya,
    So I’ve been writing WordPress themes for a couple years now, so I feel foolish asking this, but I don’t know how to make my theme “Widget Aware” so “widget” plugins can be implemented. Can someone help me?

    – I’ve reviewed these instructions reference in the “Appearance” -> “Widgets” panel of WordPress but have found them irrelevant or unclear.

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  • What’s unclear about them? Have you considered downloading a few widget-ready themes and seeing how other theme developers have achieved this?

    Thread Starter Spencer Hill

    (@ws5f3dj7)

    I’m not sure how to describe they’re not clear, I followed the instructions and even attempted to copy and paste the code listed, but I’m still unable to add widgets to a particular page.

    And I did review the default WordPress theme to find the solution, but to no avail.

    It would seem to me that a simple PHP statement of some sort would make my theme widgetized, no?

    Example: <?php widgets_here(); ?>

    There is a simple code snippet for use in a template file. It’s:

    <?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Name Of Widget Area')) : ?>
<?php endif;?>

    See Widgets_API

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