Here’s a really nifty function written up by Chris Gossmann that’ll check to see if a particular custom page template is active. Chris had to write a SQL query to get this to work so be thankful that he survived to tell us about it.

WordPress allows you to add widget areas where ever you want and while we can create custom widgets some times it’s essential to be able to manipulate the arguments of the default ones. This more then being a tutorial is a guide of the filters we can use to manipulate the arguments that these widgets have.

Every time you build a theme for Wordpress you are bound to the CSS classes which are hard-coded.
Here’s a method to overwrite the default method for printing the HTML for those lists.

One of my favourite features of both Biblioteca and WPShout has to be the footer. With three columns and being widget ready, it’s pretty awesome!

I’m not going to lie – the widget built into WordPress for searching your blog is ugly. Just today I was looking to add some functionality to the blog here, and upon adding the Search widget to my sidebar, discovered how plain and outdated it looked. After some quick thinking I came up with this simple method to making your own search box without any server-side coding, and thought I’d share with you guys.

Widgets allow users to add parts to a theme, which is why they’re a good way to add customisability to your theme. As the codex shows, there are a heck of a lot of widgets available!

You can disable the unneccessary Widgets in your functions.php of your theme with a small function. The following syntax will switch off all the standard widgets. It should therefore be adjusted depending on your requirements.

Dashboard Widget are as simple as One-Two. There is really not much to it, seeing that WordPress has made it so simple to add.

Wordpress 2.8 has been released with a much improved Widget API, which we really suggest you utilize this in your WordPress coding. The new interface & API allows for much more customizability than ever before. Let’s show you how…

Registering the sidebar is about more than just telling WordPress it exists. You also need to specify the structure of the sidebars.