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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

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WordPress 2.7 Cookbook

Overview of this book

About 120,000 blogs are created every day. Most of them quickly die, but a few stay, grow up, and then become well known and respected places on the Web. If you are seriously interested in being in the top league, you will need to learn all the tricks of the trade. WordPress 2.7 Cookbook focuses on providing solutions to common WordPress problems, to make sure that your blog will be one of the ones that stay. The author's experience with WordPress enables him to share insights on using WordPress effectively, in a clear and friendly way, giving practical hands-on solutions to WordPress problems, questions, and common tasks ñ from themes to widgets and from SEO to security. Are you feeling limited with WordPress, or are you wondering how popular blogs do a certain kind of thing that you can't? With this cookbook, you will learn many WordPress secrets and techniques, with step-by-step, useful recipes dedicated to achieving a particular goal or solve a particular problem. You'll learn the secret of expensive premium themes, how to optimize your blog for SEO and online profits, and how to supercharge WordPress with killer functions used by the most popular blogs over the Internet.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
WordPress 2.7 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
2
Finding and Installing Themes
Index

Creating two (or more) different widget-ready zones


Widgets are indeed very useful, and can help you to easily achieve a lot of tasks on your WordPress blog. Now, you know how to create a widgetized sidebar for any theme, but what about more than just a widget-ready sidebar?

In this recipe, you'll learn how to create as many widgetized zones as you want.

Getting ready

In this recipe, I assume that you have read and understood the basics about creating a widget ready zone, as described in the previous recipe. To complete the following recipe, all that you need is a theme of your choice.

How to do it...

  1. Let's start by creating a widget-ready zone in the theme sidebar. Open the sidebar.php file from the theme that you have picked-up. If the theme already has a widgetized sidebar, replace the existing code by the following one, or add it if the sidebar isn't widgetized at all.

    <ul id="sidelist">
        <?php /* Widgetized sidebar */
        if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') ||!dynamic_sidebar...