editable areas

[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?

[Anonymous]

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

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

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' => '
',

'after_title' => '
',

) );

register_sidebar( array(

'name' => __( 'Column 2' ),

'id' => 'col2',

'before_widget' => '',

'after_widget' => '',

'before_title' => '
',

'after_title' => '
',

) );

register_sidebar( array(

'name' => __( 'Column 3' ),

'id' => 'col3',

'before_widget' => '',

'after_widget' => '',

'before_title' => '
',

'after_title' => '
',

) );

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

[Author]

Posts