Title: Widgetizing Theme Headache
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widgetizing Theme Headache

 *  Resolved [alyciaanimation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alyciaanimation/)
 * (@alyciaanimation)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-theme-headache/)
 * I’m going crazy trying to widgetize my theme that I’m creating. I’ve read the
   instructions about a hundred times now and I can’t figure out what I’m doing 
   wrong. I added the 2 lines of code in my sidebar.php file and 4 lines of code
   in the functions.php file, as per the instructions, but it still says “No Sidebars
   Defined”. (The sidebar is an unordered list and the titles are in h2 tags)
 * Then I tried just replacing my sidebar.php and functions.php with the default
   theme ones, since I knew that the default theme is widgetized, but it still came
   up “No Sidebars Defined”. This part doesn’t make any sense to me at all. There
   must be some other piece of code I should have (maybe in the index.php??) or 
   another step that needs to be taken for it to take hold.
 * I’m going crazy here 🙁 Thank you in advance for any help.

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 *  [darran](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darran/)
 * (@darran)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-theme-headache/#post-852942)
 * You have to paste your code so that we can find the root of the problem. My guess
   is that you did not register the sidebar.
 *  [lelandf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lelandf/)
 * (@lelandf)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-theme-headache/#post-852958)
 * If it still says “No Sidebars Defined” you probably didn’t do the functions.php
   properly.
 * Try reading this article on widgetizing themes: [http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/18/see-how-easy-it-is-to-widgetize-wordpress-themes/](http://www.themelab.com/2008/04/18/see-how-easy-it-is-to-widgetize-wordpress-themes/)
 *  Thread Starter [alyciaanimation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alyciaanimation/)
 * (@alyciaanimation)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-theme-headache/#post-853071)
 * OK, um, now I feel like an idiot.
 * First off, thank you for the link to themelab.com, I found it much more useful
   than the automattic site.
 * After lots of trial and error, trying to weed out what was going on, I finally
   found where I was making the mistake. Um…I had named my functions.php “fuctions.
   php” (missing a critical “n”), gosh that’s embarrassing. ::holds head down in
   shame::
 * Thank you so much for your help.

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 * Last reply from: [alyciaanimation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alyciaanimation/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-theme-headache/#post-853071)
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