I’m getting the “No Sidebars Defined, The theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware…” message when I hit my Appearance > Widget tab – and my side bar stuff doesn’t show up (a photo gallery) on the site. All of this was working fine, I believe, until I installed a new widget (Thumbnail for Excerpt widget). I’ve since deactivated, and then removed the new widget, upgraded to the last version of WordPress, deactivated other widgets – all to no avail. I’ve also read extensively and tried out updating the function.php and sidebar.php files – still doesn’t work – no side bar widgets and same message as above.

Currently in my functions.php I have this code:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));

and in the sidebar.php code I have:

if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

I’ve read many sites and tried different variation of the above code – but still nothing. I can’t link to the site because it is behind a “firewall/secure set up”

Thanks to anyone that can give me clue here?

I would appreciate any advice on where to go from here.

I recently upgraded from WordPress version 2.1.1 to 3.0.3. I am trying to install widgets on the side bar (e.g. link to twitter feed), but am being told that my theme (Connections 1.0 by Patricia Mueller) is not “widget-aware”.

Is there a way to convert my theme to make it widget aware? If so, can I do it without losing what I have on the side of my blog’s page now?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

On the widget section on wordpress it says…

“The theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change.”

Can someone help with this, please? I don’t have any html skillset.

I want to use the Free WordPress theme “Horses Blog” (https://themes.rock-kitty.net/?p=3276) on my client’s blog (https://letstalkracing.co.uk/) . Now, this theme does not have the widgets defined but has the already existing widgets in the sidebars, like Categories, Archives, RSS, etc.

I want to add more widgets (Login, blogroll, other widgets) to the existing ones for both the sidebars i.e. left and right.(without deleting the existing – categories, archives etc.)

I refered to the links mentioned already on the forums, i tried editing the functions.php and sidebar.php and sidebar-right.php but doing so either the existing layout is disturbed or in the other case, the entire sidebar goes away.

Please guide me exactly how to accomplish this? Kindly donot list the same links again to automattic and wordpress codex but please visit the template site and my blog and provide me with the sureshot remedy for this. I have been trying since 2-3 days now.

I would be really thankful to you.

Amandeep Singh

<!– begin sidebar –>
<div id=’menu-right’>

<h5 class=’coltitle’><?php _e(‘Recent Posts’); ?></h5>

<?php get_archives(‘postbypost’, ’10’); ?>

<li id=”search”>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-“;
google_ad_width = 250;
google_ad_height = 250;
google_ad_format = “250x250_as”;
google_ad_type = “text_image”;
google_ad_channel = “”;
google_color_border = “1d0006”;
google_color_bg = “1d0006”;
google_color_link = “CC0000”;
google_color_text = “CC0000”;
google_color_url = “CC0000”;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>

<h5><?php _e(‘Main Menu’); ?></h5>

<li id=”menu”>

<?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1&title_li=’ ); ?>

<h5><?php _e(‘Main Categories’); ?></h5>

<li id=”categories”>

<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

<h5><?php _e(‘Archives’); ?></h5>

<li id=”archives”>

<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>

<li id=”link”><h5><?php _e(‘Blogroll’); ?></h5>

<?php get_links(‘-1’, ‘
• ‘, ‘

‘, ‘
‘); ?>

<li id=”meta”><h5><?php _e(‘Meta’); ?></h5>

<?php wp_register(); ?>
• <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
• ” title=”<?php _e(‘Syndicate this site using RSS’); ?>”><?php _e(‘<abbr title=”Really Simple Syndication”>Entries RSS</abbr>’); ?>
• ” title=”<?php _e(‘The latest comments to all posts in RSS’); ?>”><?php _e(‘Comments <abbr title=”Really Simple Syndication”>RSS</abbr>’); ?>
• “><?php _e(‘Valid <abbr title=”eXtensible HyperText Markup Language”>XHTML</abbr>’); ?>
• <abbr title=”XHTML Friends Network”>XFN</abbr>
• “><abbr title=”WordPress”>wordpress</abbr>

<?php wp_meta(); ?>

</div>

<!– end sidebar –>

“You are seeing this message because the theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions.”

Here is my sidebar code:

<div id="sidebar">
<ul id="sidebar">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
        || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<li id="about">
  <h2>About</h2>
  This is just me testing to see if ANYTHING shows up in the sidebar!

 </li>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div>

The about section is showing up.

I have WP 2.3.3 and using an older template. Now I want to include widgets. I already followed the instructions on https://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/ and looked at some widget compatible templates but everything I try does not work.

I added the following code:

<?php
if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>							<ul id="sidebar">
<il> test </il>
</ul>
<?php endif;
?>

But nothing is changing. Test shows up nicely but still I a getting the following msg:

You are seeing this message because the theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions.

can somebody shed a light on it?

(the site has nudity)

and is there any similar themes where there’s a simple header and two columns, in a widget-aware theme?