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Add Widgets To Wordpress Leia Theme

Writing by Jason on Thursday, 26 of July , 2007 at 7:49 pm

Have you ever wanted to add sidebar widgets to your Leia Theme in Wordpress? I did it today and would like to share this easy method with everyone. As you can see reallyreally.net currently uses the Leia blog theme, you can view and download the theme from here: http://themes.wordpress.net/?s=Leia

The theme’s full name is leia-english-10. I think it is one of the nicest looking wordpress themes I have ever seen, I just had to get it! The only problem is the theme does not come with dynamic sidebar so that it is not widget aware making it inferior to many other themes out there.

This easy step by step method of widgitizing (is that a word??) the Leia theme is shown below. Works with Wordpress 2.xx.

Step 1. In your, themes > leia-english-10 > sidebar.php file, find the following code, now yours may be different just make sure you find everything between the izquierda & derecha div tags.


<div id="izquierda">
<ul>
<li><h2>Categories</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages(’title_li=<h2>Websites</h2>’ ); ?>
</ul>
</div>

<div id=”derecha”>
<ul>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>
</ul>
</div>


Replace with this code:


     <div id="izquierda">

    <ul>
    <?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>

    <li><h2>Categories</h2>
    <ul>
    <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
    </ul>
    </li>
    </ul>
    <ul>
    <?php wp_list_pages(’title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>’ ); ?>
    </ul>

    <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

    <div id=”derecha”>
    <ul>
    <?php if ( function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else : ?>
    <?php get_links_list(); ?>
    </ul>
    <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

Step 2. Make a file called “functions.php” with the following code and place the file into your, themes > leia-english-10 directory.


<?php
if ( function_exists(’register_sidebars’) ) register_sidebars(2);
?>


That’s it! Your done! As long as you are running a recent version of Wordpress, ie 2.0+ this should work no problems. To make sure it is working log into your admin area and look in, presentation > Widgets, you should see the two bars there with options to add widgets from the bottom of the page. If you don’t then back track and double check everything. Your comments are welcome, let me know if you have any problems, I will be happy to help as best I can Full credit goes to John Moravec at educationfutures.com for showing me how to do this.

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