Title: Widgetizing WuCoco
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Widgetizing WuCoco

 *  [MikeLococo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelococo/)
 * (@mikelococo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-wucoco/)
 * I’m attempting to add widget support to a [theme I maintain](http://mikelococo.com/projects/wucoco/),
   and am running into problems. I am able to get widgets running with the default
   theme, to test that the plugin is functioning. In the process of widgetizing 
   my own theme, I’ve added the “if… else…” line to sidebar.php and have created
   a functions.php to register the sidebar. Unfortunately, the “sidebar widgets”
   tab never appears in the presentation menu and I continue to see my static sidebar
   after making the changes. No errors are given and nothing else looks out of the
   ordinary. For what it’s worth, my theme is based on another theme that did not
   previously make use of functions.php.
 * I’ve carefully read the [instructions](http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/)
   at Automattic.com and am at a bit of a loss as to how to proceed. If there’s 
   any additional documentation or suggestions anyone might have I’d be grateful.
 * Thanks,
    Mike

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-wucoco/#post-397713)
 * Did you close that if… thing at the end of your list in the sidebar?
 * Edit. I did not “create” a functions.php – I just copied it over from a theme
   that had it.
 *  Thread Starter [MikeLococo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelococo/)
 * (@mikelococo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-wucoco/#post-397734)
 * I did close the “if”, but hadn’t tried copying a working functions.php over. 
   After doing that it worked, and I then stripped out everything but the sidebar
   registration bit to see if there was an extra function I was missing… and it 
   still worked. That was the state I thought I was in before posting my question,
   so clearly I wasn’t spotting a typo somewhere.
 * Thanks for the hint and sorry for the bother,
    Mike

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 * Last reply from: [MikeLococo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelococo/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgetizing-wucoco/#post-397734)
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