How do I register this so that it shows up under the “widgets” admin panel. This way I can easily drag/drop my own widgets right from there.

I’ve learnt a great deal from reading your tutorials. As a newbie one of the things I value most is the comment you add to each line of code that explains what it’ll do.

Keep up the great work.

Best

Nic

Glad you were able to use the code!

There are two ways to move the sidebar box around: the margin property or with relative positioning. The margin property doesn’t always work, but we’ll start with it anyway.

All you have to do is to experiment with the numbers in the margin property in the CSS code. The property as it stands now is:

/* separates box from elements around it */
margin: 2em 0 2em 0;

Remember that the numbers in the margin property represent top – right – bottom – left (in other words they go in clockwise order starting at the top). If your box is too far to the left, try adding to the left value like this:

/* separates box from elements around it */
margin: 2em 0 2em 3em;

Like I said, this may not work. If it doesn’t then relative positioning will. Insert the following properties into the #sidebar_two_column_box selector:

position: relative;
top: 0px;
left: 0px;

If your box is too far to the left, increase the size of the left property with a positive number like “10px”. If it’s too far to the right, move the box to the left with a negative number, like “-10px”. Be sure to include the “px” next to the number. Incidentally, if you are more comfortable with using “em” for sizes, feel free to use it.

Hope this helps!

Yes, you can have different boxes on as many different pages as you wish through the magic of conditional tags, as described in this article: http://thesisthemetools.com/tutorial-customizing-just-your-front-page-pages-or-posts-using-conditional-tags/

Just designate a box as applying to a certain page or type of page, and it will appear only on that page. For example, for a named page:

function front_page_box() {
if (is_page(‘Front Page’)) {
…your code…
}
}

and for the blog page — which is always known in WP-speak as the “home” page:

function home_page_box() {
if (is_home()) {
…your code…
}
}

Or if you want the picture to appear on every page except the blog page, just negate the condition with an exclamation mark (!):

function home_page_box() {
if (!is_home()) {
…your code…
}
}
Everything else you do besides the conditional tag is the same.

Hope this helps!

Thanks again for the great site.
David

This worked perfectly, thanks. Do you have any idea if it’s possible to create two identically sized boxes for different pages? One for the home page sidebar and one for the blog sidebar? I’d like to place different content in each.

thanks,
David

Thank you, Mike.