WordPress Pitfalls – Template Limitiations

While helping a fellow classmate, Rob to set up his sidebars, I came across an issue with the particular template he was using.

We were trying to add a list of the blogs that he follows and no matter what we did, they would just not show up.

By default, this widget displays the blog list as a “list”. But there is also an option to display them as a “grid”. Out of interest, I tried changing the display option to “grid”. And voila! The list of blogs he was following displayed.

So from this we can learn that in SOME cases, you might not be doing anything wrong, but particular templates may have limitations to them. The problem is that there was no mention that the “list” view wasn’t supported, so we actually had to find this out for ourselves.