Unfortunately, some themes don’t support widgets. Or maybe they support them, but you want to put them in other places than the sidebars – which is where they usually live.

If so, Istvan’s new book “Widget Magic” is for you. He clearly explains what widgets are, and how they work, and then goes on to give you examples of how to widgetify (Is that a word ? Well, it is now! ) any area of your blog.

A sample theme is provided with the book, and Istvan gives “follow along” examples of adding widgets to a single post template, the footer, and the category/archive templates of the sample theme.

Although Istvan stresses that this is not for raw beginners, I believe that a beginner would learn a lot as they work step by step through the examples. (It might take them a while though)

To widgetify your template you’ll need to be able to identify and edit your theme files, and upload modified files to your server with FTP.

This book has shown me how to do something that I’ve always wondered about. I thought it would be too hard. Turns out it isn’t.

regards,
Eric G.

I’ve sent an email to my list and offered 3 free review copies for the first three commenters here.

All the copies are gone now – sorry guys.

Of course, you can still post your comments and questions.