Adding Widgets into a Wordpress Theme that doesn't have one
This is a bit technical so don't worry if you need to press on that pause button a few times. the good news is you don't need to memorize this!
Video Transcript
00:00So you're watching this video because when you click onto your appearance or roll over your appearance appearance menu
00:06You just don't see their widgets. Now if you don't then don't worry in this video
00:11We're gonna solve that together and add widgets into your theme. The steps are gonna be a little bit
00:17Techy, but don't worry about it too much. All right
00:19So the first step that we want to do is first go into your FTP
00:22Now if you don't know what that is, then unfortunately this is out of scope for this course
00:27But I do strongly encourage you to check one of our HTML courses where we talk a bit about it about FTP where we talk about file
00:34Paths, I really really strongly to encourage you to have that basic understanding in HTML because it's gonna help you a lot and the world
00:41Of marketing as well. All right without further ado you're in your FTP account
00:45What I want you to do is double-click into your WP content and then into your themes
00:51Then locate your current theme that you're running now
00:54if you don't know what your theme is you could go directly into the
00:57Actually into your appearance into themes and then check to see what theme is the theme that is being that is active currently
01:05So if we scroll around here a little bit and look for it
01:08We'll see that our current theme is is the very creative theme, right? I almost didn't see it
01:14So we're in the very creative theme, which is in if we go back into our FTP
01:18We'll see that we have our very creative folder in our very creative folder
01:22What we want to do is you want to locate two files one is going to be the functions file
01:27And I'm going to just show you basically there's the functions dot PHP file where we're going to paste in this code and
01:33The other is the sidebar PHP where we're going to paste this code inside. You don't even need to understand it
01:39So because I'm working with cyber duck, I could actually edit the files directly on the server
01:43So I could just click here onto my functions folder and click directly on edit if you're not working with this
01:50FTP or any other FTP. You'd probably want to download the file edit it and then upload it back again
01:55So I'm just going to click on that edit button and immediately live basically edit my file
02:00And I'm just going to go right to the bottom of my page and notice that is before this question mark
02:06And will you put in the center of the screen before the question mark and because this is the end of the PHP
02:11Area, so I broke a line right after whatever was there. You might have different information there
02:16by the way, if you don't have the functions that PHP file create it and make sure that you open up your code with a
02:24smaller question mark PHP
02:26Make a line break and make sure that you end your file and the last thing in the file is question mark greater than
02:32Once you do that just before the end of your file
02:35I want you to go back into that file that we had and I want you to copy this file that you could download from
02:41Our source files and just paste it right there and save it
02:45Because we're working with cyber duck. It's going to automatically upload the information directly to the server
02:50So it's going to be just as much as if we downloaded the file updated it and then uploaded it again
02:56The next one we want to find is the sidebar and the sidebar PHP same thing. We're going to click on that edit button
03:03Once it opens up we want to figure out where do we want to put it in our case?
03:07We really we could put it anywhere we want but because a mail something of this magnitude
03:11We want to get as many people joining it
03:13So I'm just going to break a line right before our title because we look at our page
03:17It's going to be right before the categories, and that's where I want to place
03:20That's basically where I want to place my new widget, so if we go back into into our editor
03:26I'm just going to make sure that I paste inside these three lines of code
03:30Into the same area right here and save it
03:33I'm going to just clean it up a little bit pasting in here save it again one last time
03:38Now that we've done that and we go back into our application and just
03:43Click anywhere really in our application. We should be getting again that caching messaging
03:48But even if we don't get the casting caching messaging
03:51What we want to check is when we click into appearance or rolled over appearance that we'll see that we have the widgets option
03:57Now that we have the widget option we can add add widgets into our theme even though originally this theme did not support widgets
04:05In the next video we're going to see how could we add the mail ship theme directly into as a widget directly into our page
04:11Right above our actual categories area all right to see you in the next video