Tagged ‘cms’
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Out-of-box, WordPress puts all its dynamic widgets in sidebar.php, which gets included in all templates throughout the site. If WordPress is acting as a CMS, however, just one sidebar.php for the whole site won't do. Since you'll be making your own widgets as well as creating layouts which use different sets of widgets at different times, you don't want to have to deal with countless WordPress if conditionals like "is_home" or "is_page," etcetera.
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Let this post be the starting point. Every time I write in this special series, you'll see a header like you do above indicating its relationship to the whole. My plan is to post one article about using WordPress to its fullest once a day, starting tomorrow, for one year.* I've been notoriously bad about pumping content into this blog, but I think since I live and breathe WordPress these days, I'll be able to pull this one off.
