Leopress theme made widget-ready?

Have you tried reading the below page:
https://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/
?

maxaud:

I gave the support (the word support is linked to that site) site a try, however I just couldn’t make it work, no matter what I did.

So yes, I did that ??

what portions of the theme do you want “widget ready”?

Just the right sidebar, so I can use a tagcloud

ok, edit the sidebar-extra.php file to say this:

<div id="extracontent">
<div id="about" class="box">
    <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/profile.jpg" alt="" class="photo" />
        <h3>About</h3>
        <?php the_author_description(); ?>

</div>

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

<div id="recent" class="box">
        <h3>Recent Posts</h3>
        <ul class="link-list">
        <?php
$lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=15');
foreach($lastposts as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
    ?>
        <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
        </ul>
    </div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

and then make a file called functions.php that says this:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<div id="recent" class="box">',
        'after_widget' => '</div></div>',
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3><div id="rightbar">',
    ));
?>

That should work.
Let me know how that goes.

When the above works, you can style your widgets with CSS using #rightbar

That’s what thought it should be, and just like when I tried the last time, the whole blog just gets blank (nothing will show up, not even if I go to the root /wp-admin)
Do I have to modify something else in other files to make it work? (copy pasted exactly what you wrote)

Those are the only two files that I edited and it works fine on my site.
Maybe it’s a server issue?

Where is your site hosted through?

At One.com

I don’t know what to tell you.
Sorry ??

Do widgets work on other themes?

That’s what thought it should be, and just like when I tried the last time, the whole blog just gets blank (nothing will show up, not even if I go to the root /wp-admin)

Be very, very careful when making the new functions.php file in the theme directory. It must have NO blank lines or any sort of whitespace outside of the <?php and ?> tags. It must be exactly what he posted above, with nothing more than that. If you have a single blank line in it, then it could break the entire blog.

The functions.php files can be picky.

has anyone figured out hot how to make both sidebars widget ready?

So, the help with regard to making this theme widget friendly worked brilliantly. At least with the sidebar-extra file. I’m pretty sure I might be able to figure out how to widget the other sidebar just based on this.

Any way to get the look of the original theme back for the sidebars once it’s been widgitized? I much rather like the way it looked before. Or, if anyone could point me in the right direction. That’d be great too.

Edit: Nvm, I’m stupid. I got it.

Maxaud, please, could you upload the Leopress theme with both sidebars Widget-ready? Sorry for my bad English, but I’m Italian ??

Thank you very much