• Resolved katetoon

    (@katetoon)


    Hello

    A friend built my website for me in WordPress and I’m having trouble fixing various things up. I have my own template – which might be the problem

    My first problem is I’d like to display things in my right hand bar:
    – Tag cloud
    – Recent posts

    But I can’t work out to how to do it.
    Can anyone help me?

    Thanks
    Kate

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  • Hello,

    The first thing you need to find out is if your theme is “Widget Ready”. You can check by clicking on “Widgets” on the left side of your admin panel. It can be found under “Appearance”. If your theme is widget ready, you will be able to apply the “Tags” and “Recent Posts” widgets by clicking the “Add” button next to the respective titles. Then you must click “Save Changes” on the right hand side.

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    Thread Starter katetoon

    (@katetoon)

    hello

    No it isn’t widget ready. And the instructions on how to make it so have baffled me already.

    I’ll try you on skype
    This is very nice of you

    Kate

    Thread Starter katetoon

    (@katetoon)

    Skype fail
    Are you able to post back anything on how ot make your side bar widget ready?

    Thanks
    Kate

    Sorry, I just got your message. Please log back onto skype

    To make your theme widget ready, follow these instructions:

    In your functions.php file ( Please Note: If you don’t have a functions.php file you will need to create one ), add the following code:

    <?php
    if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
    'before_widget' => '',
    'after_widget' => '',
    'before_title' => '<h2>',
    'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));
    ?>

    Then in your sidebar.php file, add the following code:

    <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
    
    The sidebar stuff goes in between, and then…
    
    <?php endif; ?>

    Begin a chat with me on skype again if you need further assistance. Very best regards,
    Richard

    Thread Starter katetoon

    (@katetoon)

    Hi

    THanks so much for that. It has kind of worked

    I wanted to keep the thinks I had in my side bar already so i put the statement a bit lower down

    Like this:

    <!– begin sidebar –>

    <h3>Search</h3>
    <div id=”search”>
    <form id=”searchform” method=”get” action=”<?php echo $_SERVER[‘PHP_SELF’]; ?>”>
    <input type=”text” name=”s” id=”s” size=”20″ /> <input type=”submit” value=”»” />
    </form>
    </div>
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    <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

    </div>

    <div class=”both”></div>
    <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

    <!– end sidebar –>

    Is that okay?

    Now it lets me add widgets but when I click save changes in WordPress admin it comes up with this informaiton

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /nfs/c04/h04/mnt/66816/domains/katetoon.com/html/wp-content/themes/toon/functions.php:19) in /nfs/c04/h04/mnt/66816/domains/katetoon.com/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 850

    Also the side bar column has gone a bit wide now and its messed up my footter

    Any help would be so apprecoated

    Thanks
    Kate

    Thread Starter katetoon

    (@katetoon)

    YOU ARE WONDERFUL

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