Following the relaunch of the Wordpress Themes, I have been trying out a number of different themes. For the time being, I’ve settled on Scruffy.

What surprised me is that a number of these themes did not support Widgets. I can’t think why this is. Sidebar Widgets have been around for some time and enabling support for widgets couldn’t be easier - as these quick tips demonstrate:

• Widgetise your theme
• How to Create Multiple Dynamic Sidebars for Wordpress Widgets

So, given this, I decided to throw my oar in and help out by adding widget support to the second most popular (at the time of writing) theme - Dum-Dum. Here’s the download for those of you who want to jump straight it, simply replace your existing Dum-Dum theme with these files - dum-dum-widgetised

For the curious, the only modifications required were:

• The addition of a Theme Functions (”functions.php”) file to register each sidebar - I decided to create one for each colour
• Modification of the Sidebar (”sidebar.php”) file to include the sidebars

Enjoy…

I have updated the genealogy software powering the Family History section of the website. If you’ve not been by this way in a while, why not take a moment to look around?.

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As is my want, I have, once again changed the theme used by this site. The current flavour of the month is GloriousFuture by Sadish Bala. Let me know what you think.

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