What we've just covered is the simplest way to widgetize a theme. There are actually a lot of other possibilities that you could utilize when adding the code to your sidebar.php and functions.php files. For example, there are options that allow you to do the following:
- Widgetize more than one sidebar, giving each a name
- Widgetize a part of your sidebar, but leave in some default items
- Widgetize the footer
- Customize the search form widget, and much more
Learning more
To learn about the variety of options available and how to take advantage of them, take a look at the following resource in the Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes.
To learn about the variety of options available and how to take advantage of them, take a look at the following resource in the Codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes.