Comments on: How To Add a WordPress Widget to Your Website

By: Don

Don — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:47:58 +0000

Ken, To change the links that you want to show with the links widget, you go into the Links area in your WordPress Admin (see screenshot.) If you want to show Categories in your sidebar, use the Categories Widget.

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:30:10 +0000

Nevermind, got it working. I do have another question. I added the links widget and I’d like my categories to show there in the right sidebar…but when I look at the blog, the only things in my links are blogroll and a bunch of stuff about wordpress (themes, forum, documentation, development blog). How do I get rid of these and enter my service categories?
Thanks,

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:01:18 +0000

thanks don, I’ve reinstalled wordpress to my root directory and without frontpage extensions. When I change the permalink structure, the message says I need to update my .htaccess ? Huh?
Can you help?

Also, how do I modify the content of the home page of the template.
Thank you.

By: Don

Don — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:00:43 +0000

Hi Ken,
When you update Permalinks in WordPress, make sure you see this message when you hit save – Permalink Screen Shot – if you don’t, it means that WordPress could not update the config files required to change your link structure.

In this case, change it back to the default. It means that your hosting provider does not allow WordPress the proper write permissions required to update the .htaccess file for the web server.

You can ask them to update the .htaccess file directly for you, (the exact directions are at the bottom of the permalinks screen if it fails) or ask them to do the unix chown command to allow WordPress to run as the same user as the web server.

By: Ken

Ken — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:51:44 +0000

Hi Don,
We spoke today. I followed the steps to add a map and to change the permalink structure and am now having major problems. The map is placed at the bottom left of everypage and the links to the pages I create show up on the main page but go to 404? When I change the permalink structure to %postname%, wp automatically changes it to /%postname%…but then the links don’t work.

Can you help ?

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:33:58 +0000

Nice website Hillary! This article describes how to have a different sidebar per page in WordPress.

By: Hillary

Hillary — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:22:45 +0000

Hi Don. Thanks for writing back. The site is live now at http://www.miraculouswellness.com. I’m not sure how to post the code here if it’s not showing up in the comments. What I wanted to do was be able to have a different side bar per page, or at least a couple of different side bars I could use. I suppose I could hard code them in, but i like using widgets.

Thanks for your help!
Hillary

By: Don Campbell

Don Campbell — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:36:08 +0000

@Hillary – My pleasure!
I can’t see the code you posted – how are you trying to change the sidebars per page? Are you adding conditional logic in the page template?
-Don

By: Hillary

Hillary — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:25:19 +0000

Hi Don,
Thank you for providing the Chiro theme! I’m working with it and would like to add more sidebars so that I can have different sidebars per page. The usual way of doing it isn’t working – for instance this generic code:

I’m thinking it’s not working because of the array, but I’m not sure. Any suggestions?

Thanks!