Editing theme – sidebar.php refuses to update

  • rrauso

    (@rrauso)


    13 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve updated a blog of ours which is using the twentyten theme and we are tweaking it to look like the actual website that is being built.

    The problem I’ve encountered is that no matter what I do, the sidebar.php will NOT update! It’s weird because if I go into the editor, the code itself has been changed/updated, it’s just not translating to the actual site.

    Other then the header and CSS, the sidebar and other .php includes haven’t been dramatically altered.

    At this point I’ve uninstalled all plugins, I’ve cleared the browser cache and tried reverting to the old code. None have worked…

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  • Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    What is the exact change you’re making to sidebar.php, but that isn’t rendering as-modified?

    Thread Starter rrauso

    (@rrauso)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve added some css classes and also deleted the search field:

    <li id=”search” class=”widget-container widget_search”>
    <?php get_search_form(); ?>

    Basically the extra css classes should call out some javascript I wrote to make the headers turn into drop down menu’s and the search function should be gone.

    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Is the code that you modified inside of an if ( dynamic_sidebar() ) conditional?

    If so, go to Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets, and verify whether or not you have any Widgets assigned to the sidebar in question.

    Thread Starter rrauso

    (@rrauso)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Yes! So no matter what I edit in the php file, since they are widgets… I can’t change them in the code?

    How would I go about adding classes to the widgets?

    **if I edit the widgets in the widget are, they do indeed update

    Thread Starter rrauso

    (@rrauso)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    example:

    <div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
<ul class="xoxo">
<li id="archives" class="widget-container widget_archive">
<h3 headerindex="1h" class="widget-title opensubheader"><span class="accordprefix"></span>Archives<span class="accordsuffix"></span></h3>
<ul>

    I would like to add a class to the last <ul>

      which displays my archive list… is this possible?
    Chip Bennett

    (@chipbennett)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    The code inside of the if ( dynamic_sidebar() ) conditional only outputs if no Widgets are assigned to the specified sidebar.

    Regarding adding classes to existing Widgets: what are you trying to accomplish, that you are unable to do using the current classes applied to your Widgets?

    Thread Starter rrauso

    (@rrauso)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for your help Chip! I was able to get what I needed by getting rid of the “if” statement.

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