Robin Malau Dot Com - Rockstar now Geek

I’ve been messing up with dozens of Wordpress Themes, either for my own blogs and lately for my client’s blogs. Lately i’ve been experimenting by converting a CSS template into Wordpress template. When i finished my first template, i was like, OMG i can make a wordpress template by my own, but then, i found out that some plugins are just not working in my template, especially PodPress.

By doing a simple Google Search i found this post by Wordpress Expert who can answer my question. A plugin friendly Wordpress template must include the following codes:

1. Header

Can you find these codes before the </head> closing tag?

<?php wp_head(); ?>

2. Sidebar

Find these codes in the “Meta” section of your sidebar:

<?php wp_meta(); ?>

3. Comments

Try to find this before the </form> closing tag:

<?php wp_meta(); ?>

4. Footer

Look for these codes at the bottom of your theme

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

From my own theme as an example, after i snipped these codes at its places, the theme is going alright with any kind of plugins that i install, especially the very cool PodPress plugin.