Comments on: Doing more with Widgets: Home Page Layout

By: cakipin

cakipin — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:11:39 +0000

thanks, it very good scrib

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:15:29 +0000

Mak, I don't know the answer I'm afraid. It seems more likely that there is something up with the widget itself.

By: mak

mak — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:05:14 +0000

hi please help. i have a theme with 3 columns ie: main page 2 sidebars side by side.

i have the cats, links in one and register and tags in the other.

But when i install a tweet widget the tweet widget is shown in my3 sidebar but everything else just disappears.

i wanted the widget to show under the rest of the items

please help

By: deshock.com » Blog Archive » We Need To Kill The Sidebar

deshock.com » Blog Archive » We Need To Kill The Sidebar — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:48:36 +0000

[...] Developers: Check out Doing more with Widgets: Home Page Layout and Doing more with widgets: Changing Layouts for some fun tutorials on using WordPress [...]

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:51:49 +0000

CarpetGuy,

You could do it as a plugin but this technique relies on changing the theme itself so if you changed the theme you are likely to lose most of it anyway.

Upgrading WordPress shouldn’t have an effect on this technique though as the only changes are to the theme files.

By: CarpetGuy

CarpetGuy — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:16:58 +0000

I have one question, what happens when you upgrade? The way that I understand it, your additions, not done as a plug-in, will get over written when you upgrade. Might it be better to create a plugin instead of just changing code?

By: wp-fun » Blog Archive » Doing more with widgets: Changing Layouts

wp-fun » Blog Archive » Doing more with widgets: Changing Layouts — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:05:37 +0000

[...] few weeks ago I showed how the home page contents could be moved into a widget to allow additional content to be added above and below it. That’s an interesting technique [...]

By: Andrew Rickmann

Andrew Rickmann — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 22:11:53 +0000

Christopher, it is possible to install widgets as part of the functions.php file that sites in the template itself, so other than installing the template there isn’t really too much more you need to do.

By: Christoph Voigt

Christoph Voigt — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:35:51 +0000

I guess you could go pretty far with creating a theme that’s completely made out of widgets. However, the gain in flexibility comes with the price of increased administration.
If I’m not mistaken every widget has to be installed as a plugin. Really makeing use of a widget-based theme could easily create a dozen of widgets which will sooner or later clutter the plugins-page. Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a sort-of-wysiwyg editor for managing the entire theme?