Base Hook Widgets is a plugin for WordPress that adds nine new widgetized regions to the Base theme framework and Base child themes. We created this plugin so users could utilize the various action hooks in the Base theme framework, without writing any PHP code at all. Simply install the Base theme framework and this Base Hook Widgets plugin and you will have 13 areas where you can add widgets. (A widget is a fancy word for tools or content that you can add, arrange, and remove from your WordPress site).
Why is this plugin useful, you ask? Widgets can include things like:
- Slideshows
- Welcome Messages
- About You
- Social Icons
- Videos
- Client Testimonials
Here is the really, really good news: We are building all of the widgets listed above as plugins that you can add to your site. Combine the Base theme, the Base Hook Widgets plugin and any one of the widgets listed above and you will have a seriously flexible theme design. Simply drag/drop any one of the widgets listed above into any one of the 13 available widgetized areas to build a custom theme in no time flat. We will be releasing the plugins during the month of January, 2011.
Here are the various places that this plugin enables you to add widgets to:
- Before Header
- Header
- After Header
- Before Title
- After Title
- Before Sidebar
- After Sidebar
- Before Footer
- After Footer
This plugin is free and can be downloaded from your member page here at Graph Paper Press. If you don’t have an account, please sign up, The Base theme framework is a paid theme and can also be downloaded from your member page if you have an active, paid account.
We would love to hear what widgets would be most useful for you. Your comments will help us decide which widgets we build next. So, speak up in the comments below!