Thanks for the posts and all the great repsonses.

But even more important I’d find a widget which enables you to sort your posts, pages and categories, and show and hide the ones you don’t want in the menu and nav bar.

I always install the same 4 plug-ins for these very basic functions, and it would be cool if it would be already build in the widgets.

dinu
I’m always iffy about widgetizing the header. The reason for this is that you have to account for a lot of different variations when styling the theme. That’s the biggest problem with widget — having to account for all the different possibilities.

cubus
Well, you’re in luck! My next theme has a page template that is completely widgetized.

I’m thinking that we’ll start seeing some of these widget plugins integrated into the WP core in some way in the coming months.

Sat
Shoot me an email. I’ll be happy to point out some great references for you.

Alex Klimm
Stop by my support forums. We can go over different scenarios and lay out code there.

Wayne Luke
Thanks for the feedback on the widgetized sections.

I can’t see any reason for a theme to have more than one footer widget area though. With proper CSS coding, you could easily just use one section to achieve the same goal.

Some areas for widget consideration:
- mid-content on a CMS style to insert content after a featured article
- one or more footer regions. I did see a Wordpress theme that had three widgetized columns in the footer.
- Above the main content.
- Below the comments.
- Between the content of a page and the comments.

i don´t have an idea of new places for widgets, but i am looking for some idea for creating a social media newsroom on my blog, something like a press section. So this would be another fix site with widgets for social bookmarking, google news summarys, friendfeed-room and so on. how can I do this? I don´t want to change the page-template for all fix sites on my blog… thanks for your answer.

Well I’ve read your manifesto, and custom fields articles, and feel like I know you a little bit! This quest for knowledge is from the beginning of the WordPress trail, and I’m looking for answers everywhere. To be honest, my head is spinning with jargon that has little meaning still.

As a general question, what direction should I go if I want to really grasp wordpress.

For instance, in reading the codex I find I still don’t understand how to creat new pages without posts on my site.

Thanks for your moment, and welcome back to the US. I know from experience it’s a strange feeling returning here from a very different country after a year away.;)