Today let’s learn a simple quick trick on how to create a custom widget. For my example I will show you how I created my Showcase widget located in the middle, to the right of the posts.
First under your functions.php
file type in the following:
<?php // Custom Widget function MyCustomWidget() { ?> <li class="widget"> <h2 class="heading">Latest Showcase</h2> <ul> <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/includes/showcase.php'); ?> </ul> </li> <?php } register_sidebar_widget('The Custom Widget for Showcase', 'MyCustomWidget'); ?>
<?php
and ?>
for it to work.<li<
because my sidebar’s start and end with <ul<
.register_sidebar_widget('the widget title', 'the name of the function');
“That’s it! Now you have a custom widget with what ever you want!
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Thank You! A Lot!
This really helped me!
BTW How did you make the archives widget to show the dates separately into two columns?
Thank you.
No problem, I will write up a post on that, check back or subscribe. Thanks Alex.
Austin,
I just found this post while checking out my ad. You might want to try this little widget with Widgetifyr.com and see what added features it gives you. In the instant version you'd get all the theme complaint pre and post calls. You can all the nice control panel stuff like a title and description.
I was thinking about just doing it for you and pasting it here, but I wasn't sure how code would be translated in a comment.
Thanks
Glenn
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