Introducing Widget Logic – a subtle plugin to help you customize the use and look of your sidebars and multimedia box for you Thesis Theme site.
3 Simple Steps
- Download the Widget Logic plugin
- Choose what and when you would like ‘things’ to appear on your page in your sidebar
- Use custom code in your multimedia box
1. Installing Widget Logic
Install the Widget Logic plugin using the Plugin Browser/Installer link at the bottom of your plugin dashboard 
page. Type in “widget logic” in the search box to find it. Activate it and it will work without any adjustment.
2. Use the Widget Logic plugin to customize what appears in your sidebars
Simply add whatever widget you want into your sidebar and when you click to edit you will be given additional options.
In the screenshot to the right, I added the “Recent Posts” between two Text widgets (that display custom code).
As I only want this widget to appear on single pages – to help fill the white space usually in the right sidebar when visitors are reading a post – I inserted “is_single()” in the Widget logic box.
You can read more about Widget Logic and see what other code you can use e.g. is_page(‘about’) here.
3. Using Widgets in Your Multimedia Box
If you want widgets in your multimedia box you will have to add some code to your custom-functions file
OR
if you are smart (and cheat and do it the easy way) you will install the Thesis Open Hook plugin and just paste 2 lines of code in the MMbox area.
What is Thesis OpenHook?
Thesis OpenHook is a plugin that will allow you to fully customize your Thesis installation without touching your custom/custom_functions.php file unless you just really want to!
OpenHook adds a new panel to your administration panel’s Design area — in addition to Thesis Options & Design Options, OpenHook creates a new Thesis OpenHook panel.
Here is a screenshot below showing a portion of the very long options panel (something for virtually every part of your Thesis Theme).
Get The Code
To get the code and instructions on how to tweak your multimedibox – check out this post at KingdomGeek. If you have any questions, you can leave a comment at KingdomGeek as well or try the every trusty Thesis Forum.
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I like your idea to use a graffiti background, it looks so fresh.
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Hi thanks for sharing this cool plug-in. I’ve just downloaded the file and let see how it goes. Same here I’ve just observed that you’ve changed your blog theme to graffiti and looks awesome!
Regards,
Mark
Great tutorial. I like to use Thesis Openhook. And adding sidebar using it is fantastic.
Thanks for sharing the information. That’s a awesome article you posted. I found the post very useful as well as interesting. I will come back to read some more.
hey I also use thesis theme, thanks for your customization tutorial
Great blog. I really enjoy reading. Great things that you have pointed out here.
Really well written and explained article, had always wondered how to do the sidebar customization
This is a very interesting tutorial, I have recently buy the theme and I want to do some customization to it first. Thanks for this info.
Looks like a very interesting and useful plugin. Thanks for the tips and insights. I’ve been looking for this type of functionality for my Thesis sites. Will download and test. Thanks.
I like your ‘Using our blog’ tab – great idea.
Thanks for the informations,i was loosing time and is just so simple only 3 steps,thanks so much.
Its very easy tutorial for me, thanks…. hope i will design my new thesis skin for all…..
I’ve been searching for some decent stuff on the subject and haven’t had any luck up until this point, You just got a new biggest fan!
I use Widget Logic on several of my sites. It’s a great plugin.