Tutorials

A widget-ready sidebar or widgetized sidebar is almost a standard for themes catering the WordPress 2.0 and 2.1 series. But first, what is widgetizing? Widgetizing simply means getting the Sidebar ready for the Widget plugin; this plugin allows you to easily re-arrange features within the Sidebar. For example, instead of having to modify the Sidebar codes […]

Although the title is Search Form and Calendar, I’ll throw in the Meta block for today too. Let’s wrap up the regular Sidebar today and figure out how to widgetize your Sidebar by tomorrow okay? All right, let’s start… Step 1 : Add search form Before I give you the codes to type, open a new notepad, leave it blank, save […]

Today’s lesson is fairly easy. You’ll learn how to call for an archive link listing and the blogroll links. Tomorrow’s lesson is the calendar and search form. Before we start, I want to explain why I’ve been breaking down my lessons into smaller lessons. Everything that you’re learning took self-taught people MONTHS to digest! It’s […]

Now that you’re familiar with the structure of the Sidebar, we’ll continue working on the Sidebar with Page-link listing. After the regular Sidebar is complete. I’ll show you how to widgetized your Sidebar. Add the following codes on top of the Categories block: <?php wp_list_pages(); ?> Save your file and refresh the browser. Here’s what it looks […]

Have you been looking forward to the Sidebar? At first glance, the Sidebar looks difficult, but it isn’t tricky at all. Once you get used to its structure, you’ll be able to code and style it very quickly. Before jumping on the Sidebar, here’s what your index.php file should look like. <div id=”header”> <h1><a href=”<?php bloginfo(‘url’); ?>”><?php […]

At the bottom of most WordPress blogs, there’s a Next Page or Previous Page link. You call for those links by using the posts_nav_link() function of the WordPress template system. In this lesson, there’s only one step! Do I really have to tell you to open Xampp Control again, theme folder, browser, and index.php file again? Step 1: (and only step) […]