The newly released Google Web element: custom search is awesome. To add it to my wordpress theme (which doesn’t have a top sidebar for widgets) I had to edit (Appearance ⇒ Editor) the header.php file and add the snippet I got from Google there, at just at the end of the header.php. So the search web element is show right after the banner and before the posts. ...
I think it was about time to change theme. I opted for Sandbox, I like the clean look. I was surprised on how well the change theme procedure was, just switch theme and the sidebar (with all the widgets) it’s still there.
I found this great tip How To Display Sidebar in Single Post in WordPress 1.5 / 2.0 Default Kubrick Theme. The only problem is that the code that you should add is not properly shown in the post. He just copied the xml code verbatim in the post without escaping it and the browser doesn’t display it properly. So I’m reproducing it here for your convenience. Go to the theme editor. Appearance ⇒ Editor Click on Theme Files ⇒ Templates ⇒ Single post (single.php) Change the class of the first div to be "narrowcolumn" instead of "widecolumn" That is, replace: <div id="content" class="widecolumn"> </pre> with ...