How to Widgetize a Page, Post, Header or Any Other Templat... http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any... News, Plugins, Themes and Reviews by Sarah Gooding How to Widgetize a Page, Post, Header or Any Other Template in WordPress January 8th 2010 in Community, How to, Plugins, Themes, development, tutorials, widget, wordpress single user, wpmu 10 Comments Have you ever found a plugin for a widget that you’d like to use in a page or post, but the only widgetized sections of your theme are sidebars and footers? Sometimes these plugins will come with shortcodes but sometimes those are not available. You can always hardcode it into the template by using the template tags provided by the plugin author, but not every user is going to want that widget on his page. If you want to preserve the option for your blog owners to use it or not use it, you will need to widgetize that page. In this tutorial we’ll show you how you can make any page completely widgetized for your custom use. The process is the same for any other template in WordPress as well. You can add just one widgetized area or you can segment it into different areas. Let’s add a top section and a bottom section within the content area of the page. Basically what we will need to do is register the areas that we want to be widgetized in our functions.php file. Then you can make a new page template that contains the new widgets that will be shown when added in the Appearance >> Widgets section of the dashboard. Step 1: Register the widget areas in your functions.php file: You should see this: if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) { register_sidebar(array( 'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" Beneath it, register your two new widget areas by adding this: 1 di 4 18/09/10 15.02 How to Widgetize a Page, Post, Header or Any Other Templat... http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any... register_sidebars( 1, array( 'name' => 'widgetized-page-top', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class= Step 2: Save a copy of your page.php and give it a different name. Then add this to the top so that WordPress recognizes it as a new page template: <?php /* Template Name: Widgetized Page */ ?> Step 3: Add the widgets to your new page template inside the content div, just below (or above, if you’d rather) the php that calls the page content: <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("widgetized-page-top") ) : ?> <?php You can of course split those up and put static or dynamic content in between your multiple widgets. They just need to contain these basic elements. Step 4: Create a new page and make sure to select the new page template. Add widgets in the dashboard to your newly widgetized areas! These will only show up on the custom template you’ve created. The same can be done for the header area, footers, posts, archives, 404 pages, index, alternate sidebar templates, multiple custom page templates, virtually anyplace within WordPress that you need to be widgetized. One innovative use for WPMU might be to make a custom page template called “My Favorites” wherein you or any other blog owner using the same theme will be able to use the WordPress dashboard to dump in as many widgets as they want to use on that page. You can separate and style a few different widgetized sections or you can just make the entire content area a mash of widgets. For example, they can drop in the RSS widget to show the latest posts from their favorite blogs, the Tweet Blender widget to show their favorite tweeter or Twitter list, a Flickr widget to show their favorite vacation, etc. Certainly all of these can’t fit in one sidebar widgetized area and some would look better shown on a page. You can enclose the page widgets in a < div > with an ID of “favorites” and then style them differently than how they might appear in the sidebar. That way the widgets will be “wearing” the appropriate style for a sidebar appearance or a page appearance, depending on how their parent div’s are styled. How cute is that? :) Nobody can argue with the simplicity of drag and drop configurable widgets. Preserving this functionality for your users is just one more way you can allow your blog owners to personalize their blog sites on your network. ShareThis Tweet This Post Mi piace A 2 persone piace questo elemento. Di' che piace anche a te, prima di tutti i tuoi amici. 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Smashing Share in January 10, 2010 at 2:24 am Permalink | very helpful. thanks for sharing this tmo in January 25, 2010 at 7:29 pm Permalink | great instructions…. worked in two minutes put in top of home page and below posts single! Vamban in January 29, 2010 at 10:30 am Permalink | Really cute and useful instructions to widgetize wordpress blog in any specified location. Nice work :D Sharon in March 3, 2010 at 12:12 am Permalink | The newbie has a question…this is is what I have been searching for but I am a newbie to all of this and am a bit lost…the new page/template is confusing me. Where exactly do I save the new page that I create?? Paul in March 29, 2010 at 6:41 am Permalink | Thanks for the tips. If I don’t want to hack my theme core files, how would I achieve the same result using my custom functions.php file? thanks Don in April 4, 2010 at 6:56 am Permalink | Thank you!Works perfect! Todd Halfpenny in April 21, 2010 at 4:25 am Permalink | Hey Sarah, This is an excellent tutorial, thanks… really helped getting me going on widgets. I have however come up with a wordpress plugin which lets you define a new “sidebar” (in a similar way to the above) but then allows you to add this to post/page content through the use of a shortcut rather than having to add code to template files. If you’re interested the “Widgets on Pages” plugin can be downloaded from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widgets-on-pages/ Jeanne in April 24, 2010 at 9:01 am Permalink | This is terrific! It provided a real breakthrough for a problem I was having. Thank you so much for sharing it. 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