How to add a widget in WordPress

So you want to know how to add a widget in WordPress?  Well lets get right into it:

Step #1 Find you functions.php file in your WordPress theme and look for this code

[php]
register_sidebar( array(
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you will find several lines of code look for this

[php]
) );
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at the end of it and add the following make sure you leave the last “}” because you will need that:

[php] register_sidebar( array(

‘name’ => __( ‘maximus-great-widget’ ),

‘id’ => ‘header-widget’,

‘description’ => __( ‘An optional widget area for your site header’ ),

‘before_widget’ => ‘<div id="the-maximus-widget">’,

‘after_widget’ => "</div>",

‘before_title’ => ‘<div id="the-maximus-widget-title">’,

‘after_title’ => ‘</div>’,

) );
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You want to give the widget a name you can see the name of this widget is maximus-great-widget.
 
Notice we gave it an id called header-widget
 
Notice we gave the widget a div tag called the-maximus-widget and then we closed the tag with the after_widget code with a closing div tag.
 
Notice that we gave the widget a title div tag as well called the-maximus-widget-title
 
You can change all these names but make sure that you remember what you named them.
 

 
Step #2 Now we can add the code to where we want the contents of the widget to appear. I want it to appear in the header of the theme that I am editing so I will put it in my header.php file in my theme.
 
[php] <?php if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( ‘maximus-great-widget’ ) ); ?>[/php]
 

 
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