Sidebar Widgets

  • Hi
    I have a blog on wordpress domain. I decided to export it to my own domain, on a differet server. I downloaded and installed WordPress (Version 2.0.5)without any problems. I also downloaded my favourite theme, Chaotic Soul 1.0.1. What I really missed was the sidebar widgets control under presentation. (On the wordpress domain, I had the same theme with the sidebar widgets’ control, so I tried to install it)

    I downloaded and installed the Sidebar Widgets plug in, following the instuction from Aotomatic “Widgetising your themes”. I have also installed the accompanying script files in appropriate folders as directed and activated the plug in.

    But I am still not getting the Sidebar Widgets option under presentation.

    Could anyone advice me what I am doing wrong?

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  • Maybe, if you provide a link to the site, and upload the sidebar.php file to https://wordpress.pastebin.ca/ then post the link back here.

    But actually…. did you upload the functions.php file from the widgets plugin distro, into the theme folder you’re using?

    Thread Starter awmyth

    (@awmyth)

    I uploaded the function.php from the Classic theme to the Chaoticsoul theme. It did not work.

    Then I created a functions.php with this code in it.

    <?php
    if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
    register_sidebar();
    ?>

    Thats the state at the moment

    I don’t think Chaotic Soul is a ‘widgetized’ theme. In other words it doesn’t have widget support built in. You have 2 options:
    1 – Either ‘widgetize’ it yourself. (More info here: https://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/).
    2 – Look for a different theme with widget support.

    – Dave

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