Orangescale Studio

I like WordPress and its templating system so far. For many WordPress users, WordPress’ widgets features in theme might be something useful. Especially, for those who do not want to deal with template tags or confusing lines of codes. Personally, when I create WordPress themes for my own sites, I rarely — almost never — use widgets. Seriously.

I find the templating system is not so difficult. When it’s related to widgets, usually we deal with sidebar items like recent posts, recent comments, etc. In most cases, I want to have different sidebar items for different pages. For example, on the single article page, I put recent articles section but not on the frontpage. So, it’s like “put [this] on [here] but not [there]“.

WordPress has its own Conditional Tags for purpose. You might want to jump into the codes for this. Of course, we can create multiple WordPress sidebar widgets. Example: for the frontpage, use widgets under “Sidebar 1″ and for the single article put widgets under “Sidebar 2″. Make sense, right? The problem is, when I use multiple sidebar widgets, I might have more than three sidebars. So, having my WordPress theme without sidebar widgets is the most suitable solution for me. Right now, for my own blog. This works for me, but if you enjoy using sidebar widgets… use them.