HTML Template into WordPress

It is well-known that all WordPress themes are built using PHP files. Actually, the whole WordPress engine – blogging software – is built on PHP. This post is not really about the difference between HTML and PHP files, and just for editing or manipulating your theme files (the templates as they are called in the WP terminology) you don’t need any specific PHP knowledge. I will talk about how to convert an ordinary HTML template into something usable in your WordPress theme.

The basic structure of any template file is just classic pure
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Video for Widget Magic

I thought you would like to see a short video how I do the steps described in the Widget Magic tutorial.

The size in this blog is not
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Widget Magic – Widgetize anything in your WordPress theme!

The Widget Magic is out: I published a great guide teaching how you can add widgets anywhere and everywhere in your WordPress theme.

If you are a blogger most likely you are familiar with the most popular blogging tool, WordPress (WP) and its feature called widgets. In the unlikely case that you never heard about widgets, in WP they are small blocks of information that can be placed – usually – in the sidebar by drag’n'drop. If you look at the right, on the sidebar of this blog the group of links (My websites) or the group of square ads – are put there by widgets.

Everybody loves widgets because you don’t have to edit your
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The marketing lessons from our vacation in Jamaica

In the middle of the winter we spent a week in Negril, Jamaica – Grand Breezes Resort. We simply loved it! I took hundreds of pictures, maybe I should install here a pictures album plugin to show them…

One day, while on the beach, a three member “mobile” band was walking around and stopping in front of sunbathing groups – offering to play some reggae music… what else? Well, they were not a world class group but on the beach with a cold drink in your hand enjoying the dolce far niente it doesn’t really matter. And it was still better to see them than the ubiquitous marijuana sellers.

When they got closer, I noticed the older
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I am picky… about my social connections

If you are using any of those social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc. you probably know what I am going to say here.

When it comes about marketing yourself (a.k.a. branding) and your products – the advice is often along the lines to connect as “friend” with as many people as you can (on Facebook), follow thousands in the hope they would follow you back (on Twitter) or to follow back whoever starts to follow you.

I don’t really feel comfortable doing all that. Maybe because in real life, too, I am picky about my friends, the real friends. I am very selective and as the years go it becomes more and more difficult to make new friends. It is
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