How do you put php includes into a wordpress site?

I created php includes references for the left and right columns of my website. Should I bother placing the references on each of my pages (27), or would that be wasting my time because when I change to wordpress none of the references will be used. I ask this becuase elsewhere I hear all you have to do with wordpress is copy and paste, copy and paste. You really can't copy and paste PHP functions. Thanks

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  1. Who says you can't cut and paste PHP? Just put it in a file and do an include with it.
  2. You can still mess with wordpress templates though. It's a regular file. I put stuff in my sidebar.php, my index.php and pages.php, also home. Anything in your theme folder you can mess with. Just keep a backup of the original backups for any screwups that will happen:)
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