WordPress Widgets - questions and suggestions

[Simon]

Originally Posted by Lemmy

I'm pretty sure you can still hardcode things into your sidebar if you're using widgets (unless things have changed since 2.2.2), but why would you? You can pretty much put anything you like in a text widget; html, js and whatnot.

Originally Posted by walrus

The issue is in the way the templates sidebar is coded. {SNIPPED] Move the stuff you want to code outside of the if/end and you can lay out your sidebar how you want.

Thanks Lemmy and thanks Walrus.

I thought I could add things outside the if/end coding manually. I was wondering more about some hard-to-find, hidden option setting in the WordPress dashboard that would just let me flip a switch to add the widgets but keep whatever else I already had there. Or even better, a drag-and-drop interface that would allow me to position the Widgets 'in between' any other sidebar items.

I did see that some of the Widgets allowed you to add text, html, js and even php code to be executed in the sidebars. There did seem to be a few choices on which Widgets to use for those kinds of things, so I'm still looking for suggestions on what others think are the best Widgets to us (and any to stay away from).

I see a lot of Widgets listed at http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/WordPress_Widgets so I'm also wondering if that's where I can find most of them or if there are some other good places to get them too.

Okay, that's all the new questions for now.






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[Lemmy]

I've only installed one 3rd party widget, and that was just to see how it's done. For my needs right now I find that a default text widget fills my needs.

[walrus]

I'll be honest, I really haven't gotten into widgets much. Since I have a system based prior to the days of widgets that I like to follow it just seems easier to copy the sidebar code from one blog to the other and ignore the widget stuff.