Adding Widget Areas to a WordPress Theme

How do you have our site basically set up we're going to go back and fix some of the sidewalk and shoes that we have on our contact page as well as Ivan Block in the sidebar is she married is that we want to enable widgets to work within our side bar so I'm going to have you do is open up your functions. PHP file and copy from the project downloads the function create widget with your peers and functions.. People in the final scene when I come down I'm really feeling years and before Styles and pasting this function make sure that we passed in the function itself as well as to create widget cause bloat and then we go ahead and just add or remove space in here okay see you then true copy of the copy of the function as well as the calls for the function below and let's talk about what's going on here basically this is a helper function to allow us to easily create widget areas and Libertarians are what we need on our side bar and wanted to drag and drop widgets and then using specifically to register a widget function and passing and some parameters that we got into me I'm typing description and that's what we're setting up here but we're not really going to delete my apps on this phone however this is confusing the rules and pass the miles in between if you need to find out where you can go look at this function and get into its specific parameters however just in setting this up for you come back into work now and should see the widgets and reappear and they decide if we remove this Wii Widgets page because we have any mobile data widget areas however once we enable which areas in a thing when we get access to add widgets and you can see that we have the page sidebar on blog site but just as we set up here and she said some super search fields archives and categories into a Blog sidebar and then a little bit of basic text here it was a fanatical so we have them set up in the back and we have functions. PHP so that the only thing to do now is go back into a template and make sure that we have the correct punctuation in the first and we're going to do is open up any templates have side bars so our archive. PHP notice that it has a sidebar here what we want to do is take out that entire side barre class you put that into include the same way you did with contact portfolio having an affair and WordPress has a special template just for sidebars and it's called sidebar. PHP and inside of where we're going to place his entire secondary power