Sidebar customization

  • hello

    Trying to customize the sidebar on my blog. i started with the default theme of kubrick, and have since customized the header, footer, background, but cant seem to get the sidebar to change.

    been looking around the site all day, and cant seem to find a simple explanation.

    what file do i need to change to customize it, and what lines of code?

    Thanks

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  • What I like most about wordpress is that there’s no custom templating language. Its all just php.

    What makes wordpress so flexible is that you can VERY EASILY just intercept what’s going on and do some cool stuff with it. The further you hide that by increasing the required code by a factor of ten, the less flexible you make it.

    A dramatic increase in widgetization will decrease the value of wordpress as a CMS to power users, unless a widgetless option remains available. I would find that quite a loss.

    Moderator Otto42 says:

    Future versions of WordPress might not even support the manual sidebar.php approach anymore. You never know, after all.

    And what happens to footer.php, header.php, and the other places where folks might want to drop dynamic code? I tried widgets. They wouldn’t do what I wanted. I reverted to editing sidebar.php — using Template Tags which seems to me to be the right level of abstraction. (Or at least it’s a programming paradigm that seems natural to me, someone who’s been programming for 40 years but rarely builds anything –even a plugin or a widget — from scratch.)

    If the quote from Otto42 is a serious prediction, I’d suggest that this discussion be moved to a new thread.

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

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    I tried widgets. They wouldn’t do what I wanted.

    Oh, no, they would have done what you wanted. You just didn’t know how to make them do it.

    There is nothing that you can do with manual editing that you cannot also do with widgets.

    I reverted to editing sidebar.php — using Template Tags which seems to me to be the right level of abstraction. (Or at least it’s a programming paradigm that seems natural to me, someone who’s been programming for 40 years…

    Kinda my point. Most users of WordPress are not programmers. Nor should they have to be, IMO.

    If the quote from Otto42 is a serious prediction, I’d suggest that this discussion be moved to a new thread.

    I wouldn’t call it particularly serious. Just an idea floating around in the mishmash of ideas I call a mind. ??

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