Comments on: Look Ma, Editable Text Regions

By: Spenser

Spenser — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:55:41 +0000

So stinking awesome. Exactly what I was looking for!

By: Mark McDermott

Mark McDermott — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:26:39 +0000

So helpful. Thanks! Two things that may help folks though:

There are two functions.php files in wordpress directories. For this, use the one right in your theme's directory.
If you use one of these custom text widgets and are still using the regular wordpress sidebar, you may also find the new text widget in your sidebar unless you change the !dynamic_sidebar('') in your sidebar.php to !dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar')

By: Graeme

Graeme — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:28:33 +0000

I though it was a bit weird…………..

……….and it must have been as no errors now!

Put it down to late night coding, must have made an error somewhere and not spotted it.

Thanks for the offer to help though.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 12:14:50 +0000

You’ll have to post a link to a screenshot or copy and paste the error or something. Seems weird it would be related to this but I guess anything is possible.

By: Graeme

Graeme — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 11:17:26 +0000

I implemented this on my own site and it works great, however when I try to export from WordPress it throws up errors from the functions.php file.

By: todd valentine

todd valentine — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:21:10 +0000

I had been digging around for at least a week or two trying to figure out how to do this. Thanks so much again Chris!

By: Shane Waite

Shane Waite — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:17:51 +0000

Id like to build an entire back end to a website using something like this. make a super simple cms

By: scribu

scribu — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:29:15 +0000

Always good to make things more editable. :) Darfuria, you can already edit text widgets with Front End Editor. Thanks for mentioning it.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:05:43 +0000

Chris, this is site is the best WP site ever … could soon become the new Codex. I found a working piece of code somewhere else but going to make some changes to it … this one looks better. I’m working on a theme for a friend where almost all parts should end up being widgetized.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:50:09 +0000

Chris, this post is great timing for me-I’ve been digging through what seems to be unnecessarily complex articles on widgetizing and adding code for widgets outside of a sidebar. Surely this CMS use of widgets is common enough for clearer instruction out there…
Thanks!