If your using the stars theme and don’t like updating those extra files on your server and want to do everything from your WordPress dashboard then this is the plugin for you.

Download it here

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp125/

STEP ONE

Add the below CSS to the bottom of your screen.css

/* Ad Blocks

---------------------------------------------------------------- */

.block

{

margin: 0px 0 0;

padding: 0 0 0px;

color: #aaa;

text-align: center;

text-transform: lowercase;

font-family: monospace;

line-height: .8em;

}

.halfblock

{

width:50%;

float:left;

padding:0;

margin:0;

}

STEP TWO

Download and extract, then add these two files to your ads folder (example: themes/thsestars/ads/)

Download here

Alternatively you can just copy the files you have in your stars theme and then rename them ads-125×125right.php and ads-125×125right.php

STEP THREE

Add this code in your sidebar.php where you want the two 125×125 ads to appear.

<!-- 125/125 Ad blocks section -->

<li id="asides">

<div class="block">

<div class="halfblock">

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/ads/ads-125x125left.php'); ?></div><div class="halfblock"><?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/ads/ads-125x125right.php'); ?>

</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

</li>

<!-- End 125/125 Ad blocks section -->

When adding all of the above you must remember to add your ad spots using the left/right.php files or else nothing else will show up.

Example:

<a href="thelinktoyourad" target="blank"><img src="thelinkwheretheimageisstored" alt="nameofad" /></a>

See the ads in action in my sidebar ————>>>>

Any trouble post below.

How to Add pages to your main (Black) menu.

In the header.php add:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’); ?>

So you change this:

<ul id="nav" class="clearfix">
<li class="<?php if (((is_home()) &amp;&amp; !(is_paged())) or (is_archive() &amp;&amp; !(is_category())) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { ?>current-cat<?php } else { ?>cat-item<?php } ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'wpbx' ) ?></a></li>

<!– change "depth=3" to suit your menu depth level, and change "exclude=x" with the category ID that you want exclude from the menu (multiple categories separated by , (comma) –>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=ID&amp;order=ASC&amp;depth=3&amp;title_li=&amp;exclude='); ?>

<li id="m-subscribe"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME?bg=e33258&amp;amp;fg=ffffff&amp;amp;anim=0" height="26" width="88" style="border:0" alt="" /></a></li>
</ul>

To this:

<ul id="nav" class="clearfix">
<li class="<?php if (((is_home()) &amp;&amp; !(is_paged())) or (is_archive() &amp;&amp; !(is_category())) or (is_single()) or (is_paged()) or (is_search())) { ?>current-cat<?php } else { ?>cat-item<?php } ?>"><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>"><?php _e( 'Home', 'wpbx' ) ?></a></li>

<!– change "depth=3" to suit your menu depth level, and change "exclude=x" with the category ID that you want exclude from the menu (multiple categories separated by , (comma) –>
<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=ID&amp;order=ASC&amp;depth=3&amp;title_li=&amp;exclude='); ?>
<strong> <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?></strong>

<li id="m-subscribe"><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~fc/YOURFEEDBURNERUSERNAME?bg=e33258&amp;amp;fg=ffffff&amp;amp;anim=0" height="26" width="88" style="border:0" alt="" /></a></li>
</ul>

Remember when you add this code pages AND categories will be visible on the menu.

If you only want to show a couple of pages add this string:

<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=&exclude=1,2,3′); ?>

Where 1,2,3 are the page numbers you want to exclude.

Adding Pages to the top of the Menu:

First: open up the header.php from your theme editor.

Second: Look for this line of code:

<div id="top">
<div class="pads clearfix">
<ul>

Third: Then Add this line of code:

<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>

So the complete code should look like this:

<div id="top">
<div class="pads clearfix">
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
&lt;li id="t-search"&gt;&lt;div class="hide"&gt;&lt;?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

To see more information on using pages visit the WorPress Codex here