GarnetHGB

I’ve checked several tutorials on how to make a theme widget-aware, but I can’t see code in my ‘sidebar.php’ that comes anywhere near matching what I’m supposed to be looking for to even make a start.

Would someone be able to describe what I need to change?

Sidebar:

<? include("adsense.php"); ?>

<h2>Pages</h2>
<ul><?php wp_list_pages('title_li=' ); ?></ul>
<h2><?php _e('Categories:'); ?></h2>
<ul><?php wp_list_cats('optioncount=1');    ?></ul>

<div style="padding-left:10px; padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "<?=$GoogleADID?>";
google_ad_width = 160;
google_ad_height = 600;
google_ad_format = "160x600_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "E7EBDE";
google_color_bg = "FDFBF8";
google_color_link = "676E04";
google_color_url = "8A3207";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>

<h2><label for="s"><?php _e('Search:'); ?></label></h2>
<ul>
<li>
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<div style="text-align:center">
<p><input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" /></p>
<p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="<?php _e('Search'); ?>" /></p>
</div>
</form>
</li>
</ul>
<h2><?php _e('Monthly:'); ?></h2>
<ul><?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&show_post_count=true'); ?></ul>

<h2><?php _e('RSS Feeds:'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<li>
<a title="RSS2 Feed for Posts" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Posts</a> | <a title="RSS2 Feed for Comments" href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments</a></li>
</ul>

Thanks very much to anyone who may take the bother of having a go at this!

I just came across an interesting discussion on Warrior Forum concerning possible alternatives to WP-O-Matic:

I hope it’s okay to make the referral, since it’s completely relevant to what’s going on here, but of much more current content.

I’m glad I found this discussion! I’ve been building my blog by mainly following a .pdf tutorial that insisted I should have this plugin. Now I know to hold off. A shame, though.

It’s unfortunate that the new WordPress releases tend to have such dramatic overall changes where plugins are concerned.

Anyway, thanks for the warning, everyone.