Forums

johnjf

Hello, I'm new to wordpress and will be building a gaming site. On the main page I'll have my blog but some areas that show a featured sections or something. I want those areas/sections editable. Here just an example pic I found online http://web3mantra.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/psd-website-template24.jpg

Where it says "Multiple Options", "Shortcodes included" and "Updated Support"

I would like to have sections like that but be able to edit it from time to time easily.

How would I go about making this?

TheDark12

You will need to create multiple Wordpress sidebars for each column.

In your theme file you will add something like the following.


<div class="column-wrap">
	<div class="column col1"><?php dynamic_sidebar( 'col1' ); ?></div>
	<div class="column col2"><?php dynamic_sidebar( 'col2' ); ?></div>
	<div class="column col3"><?php dynamic_sidebar( 'col3' ); ?></div>
</div>

And in you theme's functions.php file add the following.


register_sidebar( array(
	'name' => __( 'Column 1' ),
	'id' => 'col1',
	'before_widget' => '',
	'after_widget' => '',
	'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
	'after_title' => '</h3>',
) );
register_sidebar( array(
	'name' => __( 'Column 2' ),
	'id' => 'col2',
	'before_widget' => '',
	'after_widget' => '',
	'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
	'after_title' => '</h3>',
) );
register_sidebar( array(
	'name' => __( 'Column 3' ),
	'id' => 'col3',
	'before_widget' => '',
	'after_widget' => '',
	'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
	'after_title' => '</h3>',
) );

After some basic styling to get them to float side by side you should be good to go.

Hope this helps! I may not have explained well enough, let me know if you run into issues.

johnjf

alright I'll give this a shot tonight and see what happens. Thanks

treehouse : what would you like to learn today?

Forums

editable areas