Comments on: Designing a Theme to Include WordPress Widgets?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:06:49 +0000

If there is a problem with the article on Automattic’s site, then you will have to ask them. It should work. Ask on the WordPress Support Forum, but search first to find out if others have had problems with this. Make sure every quote mark and apostrophe is a text version and not a smart quote. Good luck!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:46:04 +0000

Hi Lorelle,

The instructions for adding the theme’s search form into the widgets on Matt’s site are WRONG. They create a parse error every time. Any idea where we can get the right code for this?

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 13:38:17 +0000

Good for you. When you say “full Widgets support”, do you mean only the sidebar or more? I’m interested if anyone had put Widget features in places other than the sidebar in their Themes?

By: CountZero

CountZero — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:52:40 +0000

I ran across this widgets stuff a couple of weeks ago when it was first published here on wordpress.com, and I instantly fell in love with this feature, so there were - supposedly - little ppl out there happier than me to learn to know that Widgets are now available as a seperate plugin.
So my task for the past three days was glass clear - implement full Widgets support into Binary Blue - and there it is.

I’m very interested which great new widgets we’ll face in the next couple of weeks, as it is really easy to write new widgets thanks to the well documented API.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 13:40:46 +0000

I know the WordPress developers are volunteers are working on a list of WordPress Themes that include Widget capability, but since there are now instructions on how to add it to any Theme, this will blur things.

There are thousands of WordPress Themes out there, and many variations on a style. I can’t keep track of all of them. And as this Widget thing expands, remember it’s brand new, there will be more Themes coming out with it all the time. Keep looking and watching.

By: Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 01:49:05 +0000

Hi Lorelle, I appreciate all the advice you give on the blog. I’ve been blogging for quite some time, but just started with WordPress. I was pondering if you could point me in the right direction to a theme that is Widget compatible and justified (expands or contracts, depending on client OS resolution). I have not found one that does this yet. Thanks for any help you can provide. My blog is about politics, technology, and what ever is on my mind at the moment. I’m in college for network administrations management, but that is more on the hardware side of the internet. I hope to take a few CSS classes this year, for I am an idiot at CSS. Thanks again…