Comment on WordPress Widgets Tutorial by SEO Dave.

WordPress SEO Widget All the widget areas are used in all Stallion layouts, so both the left and right widget areas are used in the Left and Right layouts. They are also used in the No sidebars layout, to literally have nothing in the left/right sidebar you add a blank Text widget to the left and right sidebar widget areas.

I see your original confusion you later discovered the solution for yourself, you’ve assumed for the Right layout you’d put everything in the right sidebar widget area and the Left layout put everything in the left sidebar widget area.

For the Left/Right layouts the left and right sidebar widget areas are stacked on top of each other and because of the way the layouts are generated not always in a logical way because of how the template files are coded** So when adding widgets for the Left and right layouts you still have to add at least one widget to each left/right sidebar widget area.

** Stallion is coded so the same template files (same HTML code) creates all the different layouts and colour schemes so no matter which layout you use you still get full SEO benefit. The layouts are created from different CSS files (one for each layout) which have no SEO impact. If you’ve ever tried to code what’s called the holy grail layout it’s a pain to get right, I also wanted to have the main content loaded high in the code AND have the 9 layouts without having to use different template files, REALLY difficult.

David