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WordPress: How to enable widgets in your custom theme

Posted on July 22, 2010 by Wenbert Del Rosario

This is probably in the WordPress documentation but to enable widgets in your own customized theme, do this:

... rest of PHP and HTML code in your here ...
<div id="sidebar">
    <ul>
        <?php if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'primary-widget-area' ) ) : ?>
            <li> id="gray_box">
                <?php get_search_form(); ?>
            </li>
        <?php endif; ?>
    </ul>
</div>

After doing that, go to your WP-Admin page and drag-and-drop widgets. The widgets page is found in Appearance > Widgets .

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