without changing template
won’t work – you will need to change the theme (at least some of the templates) to achieve that.
Ahh, I thought that would be the answer – sad!
Thanks so much,
Felicity
while keeping the same theme, you would need to:
– edit header.php (or any other suitable template(s)) to add a call for the right sidebar; something like <?php get_sidebar('right'); ?>;
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Function_Reference/get_sidebar
– edit functions.php to add the register_sidebar() code for the new widget areas;
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Function_Reference/register_sidebar
– add a new sidebar-right.php with the correxponding code;
http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar
– edit style.css to add styles to format the new sidebar (this is imho the most challenging part of the customisation).
general: http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Widgetizing_Themes
general:
the header.php edit could be:
</ul>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar('second'); ?>
<div id="main">
the functions.php added code could be:
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Second Sidebar',
'id' => 'second',
'description' => '')
);
the sidebar-second.php code could be:
<div id="sidebar" class="second">
<ul>
<?php /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('second') ) : ?>
<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<li><h2>Meta</h2>
<ul>
<?php wp_register(); ?>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
</ul>
</li>
<?php } ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div>
for the formatting, you will need to create space for the new sidebar, this involves several of the div where the width is close to 900px;
you will need to add at least:
/* Sidebar second */
#sidebar.second {
float: left;
width: 190px;
margin-left: 15px;
margin-right: 0;
}
(possibly much more if you need the sidebars to be of different widths)
and you will need to adjust a whole lot of background images.
(this has not taken into account whatever changes you already made to the styles, as your sidebar is on the left and a different width as compared to the original theme)
