goldberry00

Hi guys,

I’m also using a theme that wasn’t widget-friendly but I changed it myself. Now I have a sidebar and a ‘widget’ tab in my admin panel.
The trick is to create a ‘dynamic sidebar’ by adding a functions.php file to your new theme directory using whatever file transfer software you have.

Step 1: (skip if your theme already has a function.php file) To do this, I found another theme that came with the functions.php file, copied it, and uploaded it to MY theme’s directory.

Step 2: Replace sidebar.php coding (from the wp.org admin panel) to (copy and paste exactly as-is):

<ul id=”sidebar”>
<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<li id=”about”>
<h2>About</h2>
<p>This is my blog.</p>

<li id=”links”>
<h2>Links</h2>

• Example

<?php endif; ?>

This makes your side a ‘dynamic sidebar’ so you can now use widgets.

Thanks that worked.

Adunate,

Did that import your theme to? I’d like to import the posts/categories from my old blog, but NOT the theme. So I don’t want to go ahead and import the stuff if it’s going to save over my new theme.

Sorry, I do have a plan, but you’re right I was being vague!

I would like to move my existing wp.com site over and, I was hoping, to be able to use wp.org software to update it with new plugins (like galleries).

I just pointed the nameservers to my new host, that’s the first step I guess!

I thought that, but then won’t my current website go offline?

It’s important (for business) that it stays online as long as possible.