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How to activate Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 or Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 by a key

Ashfame — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:31:41 +0000

If we try to activate Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 or Kaspersky Internet Security 2010, we only get the option to enter an activation code and activate only. We don’t get any option to activate through key file. But there is a workaround for it.

Disable the internet connection.
Enter any valid (even expired activation code) when prompted. (Expired Activation Code : K5PXQ-X1SW6-2RAMR-ZBM2X)
Try to activate online.
It will try but fail and then it will give option to select the key file.
Browse and select the key file.
Activate using the key file now.

If you prefer to watch a video tutorial, then check out this video tutorial :

Let me know if you need any help by leaving a comment here.

Backup & Restore your Firefox data using Febe

Ashfame — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:35:31 +0000

Whether you are switching to a different OS or you are installing the OS again or just installing Firefox again or going to use a different installation too (like that in Office) then you can’t start from a new Firefox installation when you are actually accustomed to all the plugins and saved authentication details etc.

Febe is a great Firefox extension which lets you backup all of your Firefox data which includes backing up extensions, themes, bookmarks, preferences, cookies, usernames & passwords, phishing data, seach plugins, browser history, form fill history and permissions.

In short, it will backup everything about your Firefox installation.

Backup Firefox using Febe

Configure Febe options

In Firefox, go to Tools > Febe > Febe Options.

Select Full profile or you may also take a Selective backup.

In Directory tab, specify the backup folder.

Taking Firefox Backup

In Firefox, go to Tools > Febe > Perform Backup.

A backup file will be created at your specified destination. You can schedule automatic backups.

Restore Firefox using Febe

On a new or different Firefox installation, Install Febe.

In Firefox, go to Tools > Febe > Restore Profile.

Select the location of backup file.

Firefox profile can’t be restored to the active profile, so we will create a new profile.

Give it a name.

Now select the profile you just created and click on Start profile restore.

Now restart Firefox and select the profile when you are greeted with profile manager. Select Don’t ask at startup if you don’t want it to ask you every time you run Firefox.

If you run into any issues or need my help, then leave a comment below.

How to find Bluetooth & WLAN MAC address of Nokia mobile device

Ashfame — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:35:07 +0000

I needed the latter one to whitelist my N86 on my home wifi network so thought of keeping the codes as reference for future use.

At the standby screen (idle position), just type in the following codes :

Bluetooth MAC address

*#2820#

WLAN MAC address

*#62209526#

I have tested the codes to be working on my Nokia N86. Let me know if you would like to add any other code here.

Integrate Skydrive in your windows explorer

Ashfame — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:27:03 +0000

SkyDrive 25GB Storage

SkyDrive is the free online storage service offered by Microsoft (Live) where you can save & share your files with other people. SkyDrive offers 25GB storage with each file size limited to 50MB. All you need is a Windows Live ID to start using the service if you are not already using it. However, if you are a heavy user of SkyDrive then the web interface is not an effective way of storing and retrieving your files.

Integrating SkyDrive in explorer

SkyDrive Explorer comes to rescue here which let you integrate the SkyDrive storage in windows explorer so that you can work with your files just like you do on your computer on a daily basis.

Features of SkyDrive Explorer

View the structure and contents of folders in SkyDrive™;
View files information (type, size, creation date in GMT format);
Create new root folders and subfolders;
Copy files into the storage;
Delete files and folders;
Copy files from the storage to the computer;
Copy folders and subfolders from the storage to the computer keeping their structure;
Use Drag & Drop for files operations;
Rename files and folders;
Create links to SkyDrive™ folders on your computer;
Copy URL of the selected object(s) to the Clipboard;
Automatic check for the latest version;
Bidirectional languages support;
Selection of your preferred interface language.

Screenshots

It will appear under your My Computer for easy access as a drive to explore your space after authentication.

Just Copy-paste or drag-drop the file like one do in explorer.

You can upload with the default windows explorer style.

You can get the URL of the file too if you want to share it with others.

Also there is a FAQ section for it if you want to ask something. I certainly like this application. Did you like it? Have your say in the comments.

How to earn quick 100 US dollars from facebook before December 31

Ashfame — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:53:41 +0000

This is not a scam, it looks like that Paypal wishlist application is actually giving 1 dollar to each user who adds the application and 1 dollar to the person who refers him. So you just need to add this application through this link and share the offer with your friends and when they add the application you will earn 1$ for each friend referred by you.

You can share your wishlist by clicking on SHARE THIS WISHLIST.

Then right click on Create your wishlist and copy your link from homepage (live feed).

You can also invite your friends by clicking on Invite friends.

You can make upto 100$ with this offer. I have already made 11$ in a matter of minutes while writing this post. After the promotion ends, the money will be transferred to the paypal address registered with the offer. The offer is only valid till December 31. So, act fast, join now and make your quick 100$ from facebook. Let me know if you need any help. Leave a comment below.

Install Windows 7 by making a bootable USB drive

Ashfame — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:12:10 +0000

Gone are the days when OS were installed by CDs & DVDs. Yesterday, I made the switch to windows 7 by installing the OS by making a bootable Win 7 USB drive. Actually my optical drive died and I didn’t knew it but it gave me a chance to install an OS by means of booting with the pendrive.

I quickly searched and came across a video tutorial but that didn’t work out for Windows XP as one of the command used in making the usb drive bootable was provided in Vista & later OS. Then I look for an XP specific solution but again that didn’t work out for me. It may be the problem of my system or pendrive but I found another way of doing that which is the most easiest.

The above video works for Vista well. But I was using a system running Windows XP. So, had to find another way. I looked for more resources and found another tutorial in which we will be using another tool to make the thumb drive bootable as DISKPART command is not available in Windows XP. So, if you are on Win XP, follow this tutorial but for some reason it didn’t work for me.

And then finally I found the best method of making a bootable usb drive from a disk image. See this video tutorial

If you need any help then let me know through comments and I will try to help.

Download Kaspersky Antivirus & Kaspersky Internet Security Updates 2010 Offline

Ashfame — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:23:33 +0000

Earlier I have written about downloading Kaspersky updates for Kaspersky Antivirus 2009 and Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 and now I am writing this article to download updates offline so that Kaspersky Antivirus 2010 & Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 can be updated.

All you need is a computer which has Kaspersky Antivirus or Kaspersky Internet Security from which you can download and save the updates and then take these updates to the computer which is not connected to the internet. I believe updates downloaded by Kaspersky Antivirus can only update Kaspersky Antivirus and not Kaspersky Internet Security as the latter one has additional components for which the updates won’t be downloaded.

Download and Save Updates

Open application and select settings.
Select My Update Center.
Under the Additional section, select Copy updates to folder and specify the path where you would like to save the updates.

Now copy the specified folder to the computer, the one which is not connected to the internet.

Installing Updates

Open application and select settings.
Select My Update Center.
Under the Update source section, select Settings.
Add the new source as the folder that you brought from former computer.
Unselect the Kaspersky lab servers and select the new folder.

Now update as you would normally do and it will be updated.

You can also download the updates of Step #1 from here :

Download Kaspersky 2010 updates (December 21, 2009) [Size - 65.4MB]

If you need any kind of help, then feel free to ask via the comments.

Blog Redesigned & Life Reloaded

Ashfame — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:19:47 +0000

I know, I am a little late in making this announcement but I will do it for the sake of my feed readers who might not have got a chance to visit my blog recently.

On this 200th post, I would like to inform you that I have reloaded the blog with a new custom theme coded by myself. I took a minimalist semantic approach & I ended up with this theme. The homepage is my favorite. Did you like it? Comments are welcome. Infact, I would love them.

Take a look!

If you want to ask anything about the implementation in WordPress, then feel free to ask me.

Now, something about life.

I have changed my working space a little bit. I run Windows 7 on my machine. Many have requested about my configuration so the specifications are as follows :

Core2Duo 2.0Ghz
2 X 1GB OCZ matched pair RAM
160GB SATA 2 HDD
ATI HD 4850
LG L226WTQ 22” Widescreen LCD
Microtek 800VA Double battery UPS
No speakers. I use earplugs that came with my Nokia N86.

Its an old monster which still runs on the road. However, my N86 is less than 2 months old.

Well, That’s all for now. Feel free to connect with me.

Nokia N86 Review

Ashfame — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:30:12 +0000

Nokia N86 – 8GB | 8MP | ? awesomeness

Today I am going to review my new cell phone Nokia N86. I am so much excited that I actually wanted to do a comprehensive review of the phone but that would have to be cut down on to my opinion of the features of the phone. Before I would start, I would say “awesome” and I am sure you will say the same after reading the complete review.

Key features

2.6″ 16M-color OLED display of QVGA resolution (scratch-resistant glass)
8 megapixel autofocus camera with dual-LED flash and AF assist light
28mm wide camera lens, variable aperture, mechanical shutter, geotagging, time-lapse, camera lens cover, VGA video recording at 30fps
Symbian OS 9.3 with S60 3.2 UI
ARM 11 434 MHz CPU, 128MB RAM
Quad-band GSM support and 3G with HSDPA 3.6Mbps support
Wi-Fi with UPnP technology
Built-in GPS with A-GPS functionality and 3 months of free voice-guided navigation (Ovi Maps)
Dual slide design with dedicated gaming/audio/gallery keys
16GB microSD card slot with microSDHC support
Beefy 8GB internal storage
Built-in accelerometer for UI auto-rotation
3.5mm audio jack doubling as TV out port
Stereo FM Radio with RDS, FM transmitter
Standard microUSB port and stereo Bluetooth v2.0
N-gage support plus you get an N-gage game for free
Digital compass
Web browser has full Flash and Java support
Active kickstand
Superb Audio quality

Well that’s a lot. Isn’t it? I will get back to them one by one.

Disadvantages

Image processing isn’t very well tuned at this moment (just scope of improvement, else its good)
VGA@30fps video is no longer top of the line (could have been better)
No xenon flash (doesn’t really matter, believe me)
HSDPA only 3.6Mbps, no HSUPA
Poor display sunlight legibility

Instead of bragging the features it has got, I would first like to express my concern on the disadvantages. The camera is pretty good and the images and video are really good. I will upload the samples of both images and videos. Dual LED flash is good in performance too. Expecting it to have a Xenon flash just because its the latest offering isn’t acceptable for me and that too when the difference is not that much. It doesn’t have HSUPA but HSDPA should be enough and regarding the sunlight, the visibility is poor but how much time is one going to spend standing in the sunlight.

Retail Package

Other than the phone and battery, the retail package included the following:

Charger
USB Data Cable
Two piece Headset (Remote + Earplugs)
Nokia OVI Suite DVD
Some Redeem coupons for OVI Store

That’s pretty much of a basic packaging but it does the job for me. In fact, it will, for many of us.

Design & Construction

It is built on dual-slide form factor and is smaller in size (103.4 x 51.4 x 16.5 mm) as compared to its competitors. It has a volume of 69cc and weighs 149grams. That’s a little heavy but hardy noticeable. Its the power in your hands.

The screen is good but doesn’t match as that of its competitors. The phone has a D pad for operating it which attracts a lot of fingerprints and the same is with the metallic but is quite user friendly.

The ambient light sensor, earpiece and video-call camera are as usually up there.

Sliding up sports a alphanumeric keypad (standard 4-row 12-key layout) and sliding down reveals four multimedia keys which are used for controlling the music playback or gallery. The keypad is not something to complain about. The keys are quite comfortable and I get very decent speeds on it.

However the four multimedia keys are not soft and I guess they should be this way only.

There is an additional slider to lock/unlock the keypad which is something I like in my phone but many have questioned its use. I guess this is a personal choice for the owner.

On the other side there are comfortable keys for Camera & Volume control both of which are just right. Not too out of the design and not too in that they become hard to press.

On the top there are Power key, 3.5mm Audio jack & micro USB port which is used for connecting the Charger, Data cable and the TV out port.

On the back the 8MP wide-angle camera is covered with a lens cover which unlocks the phone and starts the camera when opened.

Around it is a kickstand which makes the phone a viewable screen by placing it on the table. One can even set the behavior that which application to start when opening the kickstand.

Thanks to GSMArena for the flash embed and the pictures of Nokia N86! I couldn’t have taken my own because my only camera is N86 8MP itself.

Camera

Its the Nokia’s first 8MP phone (3264×2448 pixels) and boasts of Carl Zeiss lens with dual LED flash. It has got many options like a digital camera and has a panorama feature too.

I will be uploading some sample pictures & a video too but till that you can have a look at the ones from GSMArena (Just click on the thumbnail to view the original size).

Download a N86 Video sample! I find them pretty much doing the job of a beginner’s digital camera (The Nokia has an aggressive noise reduction for photos and the photos end up with oily look when fully zoomed at 100%)

Processing Speed

The phone is pretty much responsive in everything. Thanks to the 434 Mhz CPU and 128MB RAM. One thing that I like the most is that viewing photos in gallery is an awesome experience. One doesn’t need to wait for the picture to process while scrolling and increasing the scrolling speed rotates the gallery in N-series style smoothly.

Audio Quality

The audio quality of loudspeaker is just enough. Its not loud but I wish it was. I am more of a headphone junky and when I listened to some of my music in the earplugs, I was impressed. It even sounds better as compared to when I plug in the headset into my PC audio jack. That means the phone’s hardware is even better than the PC’s soundcard.

Its sound quality is almost equivalent to the Nokia N97 as their frequency response graph runs very close.

It also has a FM Transmitter which enables you to transmit your playback on a set frequency and then any FM device can play the music. It adds up awesome for Car stereo.

Battery Life

It is powered by a 1200mAh Li-Ion battery and on paper it has some decent standby and talktime. However I am facing a little trouble with this one. I might need to get it checked. My cell never shows up the “Battery fully charged” message and keeps on charging but in the screensaver it shows the battery is fully charged. Still it runs for a whole day of mix usage but I believe it should run for 2 days with heavy usage & GSMArena has reported that too. I will update this section once I am done with my visit to the Nokia Priority as the fault can be anything – charger, battery or the microUSB port. If any other user can share his/her experience it would be great.

Apart from all this, the web browser is pretty good too with full flash and java support. The accelerometer is good too and responsive enough.

Final Verdict

Instead of the fact that I am having some issues with battery backup time, I love this offering of Nokia. I would recommend it to anybody looking for an all rounder phone in range of 20k. I bought it for 20.8k actually from Nokia Priority. They were asking for 21.4k but my friend managed to get the deal in 20.8k. Its totally sexy.

How to use the 960 CSS Grid Framework

Ashfame — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:30:11 +0000

My first piece of advice before using any kind of framework is that become strong in your basics, learn to do it from scratch, build it from hand and then use frameworks for cutting development times. They are by no means to be use when you are new to the discipline. Today, I am going to discuss about the 960 CSS Grid Framework.

960 Grid Framework is one of the most popular CSS frameworks used nowadays and believe me it is all you need if you want to build fixed page layouts with the complexity of your imagination layout. Today I will tell why I love this framework and use it everywhere.

About 960 Grid Framework

With 960 Grid, you have a 960px width layout which means that it will run without a horizontal scroll bar on all the monitors running a resolution of at least 1024 X 768 (generally of a 15”monitor). Its a wide screen world and you can safely ditch visitors with smaller screens because you can’t compromise with all the space just to support some visitors with outdated hardware. (They need to act, not you!)

And the development time is so fast that you won’t find any reason of not using it. Anyone can develop a design grid skeleton in under 15minutes. Now isn’t that fast for you?

Other than this we have a choice of either selecting a 12 column layout or 16 column layout. Since 12 is divisible by 1,2,3,4,6 we can have those many equal width horizontal partitions of the 12column layout. Other than having equal width horizontal partitions, we can also have partitions like one consisting of 8columns and other one consisting of 4columns (8+4) and also 3columns layout (5+5+2). The same is with the 16 column layout and hence we need to select one as per the needs.

I will demonstrate how I build the design grid of my last project’s (Need A Project) homepage using 16column layout of 960 CSS Grid Framework.

Here is how the skeleton of the design grid looks like :

And here is the code behind this grid :





NAP Grid







	Need A Project - 16 Column Grid



	
		
			460px
		
		
			460px
		
	
	 
	
		
			520px
		
		
			400px
		
	
	 
	
		
			460px
		
		
			460px
		
	
	 
	
		
			100px
		
		
			340px
		
		
			460px

Explaination & Usage

960 Grid Framework consists of 3 CSS files which we include on the pages (960.css | text.css | reset.css). In the above code, the files are specified on line 6, 7 & 8.

Everything comes inside a DIV whose class is container_16. Inside this DIV, we have lots of other DIVs whose classes are grid_X where X is the width specified as the no of column(s).

We can have grids inside other grids. For example : We would like to break a grid into two parts, then it holds two DIVs each with a class of grid_X/2 where X is of the in housing grid. Have a look at the code from line 24 to 31 and you will get to know how to use it. One thing to note here is that the first or left-most DIV has an additional class alpha and the last or right-most has an additional class omega. The alpha & omega cut downs the left & right margin of the DIV respectively in order to accommodate the grid in another grid.

There is also an class prefix_X which specifies the left margin of the DIV to leave space for X no of column(s). Similarly the class suffix_X specifies the right margin of the DIV.

Well that’s all you need to learn this superb CSS framework. There is also a grid overlap tool which you should try out. The site seems to be down right now but the tool (actually a bookmarklet) is very handy. Check it here. I would suggest you to try out some grid designing and I am sure you will love it. Have any questions or comments, then leave them below.

List of topics of a particular bbPress forum

Ashfame — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:30:02 +0000

This tutorial will demonstrate the usage of custom queries so as to show topics of a certain bbPress forum along with Topic starter and Last Poster of inside WordPress. Before you can play around with bbPress information, you need to integrate WordPress with bbPress. After integration you can place this code anywhere in your template and it will fetch information from bbPress tables.


get_results($query,"ARRAY_N");

	if(!$topicslist)
		echo "err";
	else
	{
		foreach( $topicslist as $topicslist )
		{
			echo '';
			echo '';
			echo '';
			echo '';
			echo '';
		}
	}
	?>
	
	
		
		Topics
		Author
		Last Reply by
		
	
	
	'.$topicslist[0].' '.$topicslist[1].' '.$topicslist[2].'

Topics	Author	Last Reply by
'.$topicslist[0].'	'.$topicslist[1].'	'.$topicslist[2].'

This is a very basic demonstration of fetching the data in a simple table. You need to change the forum_id to the id of your forums (Look into your database via phpMyAdmin) on line 12, change the no of topics to display on line 13 and change the bbPress table prefix in query on line 15.

You can also make your titles hyperlinked with the topic slug by fetching topic_slug from the database and generating the URL as per your permalinks setup. Doing this goes beyond the scope of this simple tutorial. You can also fetch topic_time to display the time in another column of the table. Just add CSS classes to style the table via CSS.

Have anything to ask or more to implement. Feel free to ask in the comments! Make sure you check out other tutorials to show bbPress content inside WordPress & the whole WordPress as CMS series.

Show bbPress forum list with posts & topics count in WordPress

Ashfame — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:35:17 +0000

This tutorial will demonstrate the usage of custom queries so as to show bbPress forum list inside WordPress. We would like it to display the list of forums along with their topic & post count.

Before you can play around with bbPress information, you need to integrate WordPress with bbPress. After integration you can place this code anywhere in your template and it will fetch information from bbPress tables.


	get_results("SELECT forum_name, topics, posts from bb_forums","ARRAY_N");
		if ($forumslist)
		{
			foreach ($forumslist as $row)
			{
				echo '';
				echo '';
				echo '';
				echo '';
				echo '';
			}
		}
		else
			echo 'Error fetching data';
		?>
		
		
			
				Forums
				Topics
				Posts
			
		
		
		'.$row[0].' '.$row[1].' '.$row[1].'

Forums	Topics	Posts
'.$row[0].'	'.$row[1].'	'.$row[1].'

You can easily style the table via CSS. Just add some classes and you can give it the look you want. If you have a different bbPress table prefix, make sure you change the table name in the SQL query (13^th line). There is more that you can do with this actually. Fetch more things like forum description, forum slug or make the forum name clickable to the forum page of bbPress. Take a quick peek at NAP’s homepage and you will get an idea.

Have anything to ask or more to implement. Feel free to ask in the comments! Make sure you check out other tutorials to show bbPress content inside WordPress & the whole WordPress as CMS series.

Show bbPress content inside WordPress

Ashfame — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:30:17 +0000

One way is to deep integrate both WordPress and bbPress so that one’s function can be called into another as both WordPress & bbPress are loaded every time a page is being generated either by WordPress or bbPress. However I am strictly against it as the overhead is not worth it. Its not at all recommended for busy sites because this will amount to increase in resources consumption and degradation in performance.

A good approach would be to mimic the functionality offered by one into another. First of all I would recommend integrating WordPress with bbPress so that they share the same database and then we can use SQL queries to fetch data from the database. The idea is to get the data by our queries and then we can manipulate as per our needs and mimic the functionality of the needed function.

Without deep integration, we can easily display the list of forums with their topics and posts count. We can display recent topics or recent replies to topics. In fact we can do anything we want. We just need to mimic that function and if any help is needed in mimicking that functionality we can always take a look at the source code of the other script.

Here is the list of tutorials which shows bbPress content inside WordPress :

Its impossible to cover some examples here as the post will become too long to read. Hence I will demonstrate the usage in separate queries.

Have any questions? Feel free to ask via comments. Make sure you check out the whole WordPress as CMS series.

How to show Random Items out of a list

Ashfame — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:30:42 +0000

Picking up the scenario from my project NAP, that I faced was I needed to show some books with their respective links but I have to pick up only 4 out of the 5 books I had and the picking should be random on each page load.

You might say that php random function is the answer to the problem but I have a few things to talk about.

Using PHP Random function to show 1 random item

If you don’t know how to use php random function to show different images every time with a link then here is how it is done. We will deal with the limitations as we proceed.

We have a list of links in an array $link and the images are renamed with a constant suffixed with the key of the array to which it holds the respective link.

For example :

$link[1] => image1.jpg
$link[2] => image2.jpg
$link[3] => image3.jpg
$link[4] => image4.jpg
$link[5] => image5.jpg

We pick up a random number between 1 & 5 by

and then display it as

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Showing 4 out of 5 items

This was the scenario in my project that I needed to show up 4 selections out of 5 options. The simple trick failed to show distinct items as everytime it selects a random number between 1 & 5 irrespective of whether it’s already selected or not. To avoid this either we store the number selected on each function call in an array and every time we check the selected number with the array. If the number was in the array then we recall the function till we get a new number. We store it and then proceed.

For example :

 $v)
{
if($v == $n)
{
$flag = 1;
break;
}
}
if(!$flag)
{
$arr[$i] = $n;
$go = 1;
}
}
}
for($i=0; $i<4; $i++)
{
?>
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Better Alternative

The algorithm would become heavy when a large number of selections have to be made as then every new selection would have to be compared with every element of array. In my scenario I have to made selection of only 4 out of 5.

So instead of randomly selected the numbers of which items are to be displayed, i randomly selected the number of which item is not to be displayed. This was pretty much good in terms of performance.

My Code :


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I use mt_rand function instead of rand function because it is better in terms of performance.

That’s all for this tutorial. Hope you got what I wanted to say. Have any doubts? Feel free to ask in the comments. Make sure you check out the whole WordPress as CMS series.

How to have multiple widgetized different sidebars

Ashfame — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:30:35 +0000

Its pretty much simple to widgetize multiple areas in a WordPress theme. Here in this tutorial I will demonstrate how you can have different sidebars for different pages and all of them being widgetized so that adding content to it is a piece of cake.

Lets say we want to have different sidebars as per categories.

Calling different Sidebars

We call the sidebar in our theme (sidebar.php) by a call to the function get_sidebar();

Now if we want to use a different sidebar then create another php file named like sidebar-two.php or sidebar-three.php, we can call it by get_sidebar(‘two’); and by get_sidebar(‘three’); respectively.

So we just need to call a function get_sidebar(‘x’); and WordPress will look for a file named sidebar-x.php for creating a sidebar.

Widgetize Sidebars

To widgetize a sidebar we just need to call the function dynamic_sidebar() with the name of that widgetized area.

For example: in sidebar-two.php

Similarly do that for all of your sidebars.

Now all of them will show up in Widgets option under your Appearance settings in WordPress.

Calling Sidebars based on Categories

We just need to place the sidebar conditionally by checking for conditions.

For example:

You can also use the category name instead of category ID in conditions.

Similarly if you want to use the same for multiple categories then it can be done like

Now that’s done pretty well in WordPress. Similarly you can do that to widgetized multiple areas in your theme. Have any questions? Feel free to ask in comments. Make sure you check out the whole WordPress as CMS series.