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1. sandeepbagchi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   I'm registering Sidebars for my theme in the following way.
   

   <?php add_action( 'widgets_init', 'bereishit_register_footer_sidebar' );?>
   <?php
   function bereishit_register_footer_sidebar() {
           register_sidebars(5,
                   array( 'name'   => 'Footer %d',
                   'id'            => 'footer-%d',
   		'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   		'after_widget'  => '</div>',
   		'before_title'  => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
   		'after_title'   => '</h3>',
   	));
   }
   ?>

   From footer.php am trying to display the sidebars
   

   <?php
   	/*
   	 *  Footer Sidebar
   	 */
   	get_sidebar( 'footer' );
   ?>

   sidebar-footer.php
   is as follows

   <?php
   /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
   /* The template for displaying the footer sidebars.                                  */
   /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
   ?>
   
   <?php
   	/* The footer widget area is triggered if any of the areas
   	 * have widgets. So let's check that first.
   	 *
   	 * If none of the sidebars have widgets, then let's bail early.
   	 */
   
          for ($i=1; $i<=5; $i++)
          {
              if (   ! is_active_sidebar( sprintf(__('footer-%d'), $i )))
              {
                  echo 'here I am returning';
                  echo sprintf(__('footer-%d'), $i );
                  return;
              }
          }
   
          // If we get this far, we have widgets. Let do this.
          echo 'here I am';
   ?>

   but not able to show the sidebar "is_active_sidebar" is failing for some reason. And the widget that i had added is disappearing :-(

2. Brett
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   That is one way to do it, but to register it why not just drop that code in your functions.php file? Like so:

   <?php
   
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
   	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Sidebar',
   		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
   		'after_title' => '</h2>',
   	));
   	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Footer',
   		'description' => __( 'Enough room for 4 widgets', 'leeu' ),
   		'before_widget' => '<div class="gs_3 widget fwidgets">',
   		'after_widget' => '</div>',
   		'before_title' => '<h4 class="widgettitle">',
   		'after_title' => '</h4>',
   	));
   
   }
   ?>

3. sandeepbagchi
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #
   

   It seems there register_sidebars isn't giving me the full control of the sidebar id.

   So, i had to add a function is functions.php to get better control while registering multiple sidebars.

   function bereishit_register_sidebars($number = 1, $args = array()) {
   
   	$number = (int) $number;
   
   	if ( is_string($args) )
   		parse_str($args, $args);
   
   	for ( $i=1; $i <= $number; $i++ ) {
   		$_args = $args;
   
   		if ( $number > 1 ) {
   			$_args['name'] = isset($args['name']) ? sprintf($args['name'], $i) : sprintf(__('Sidebar %d'), $i);
   		} else {
   			$_args['name'] = isset($args['name']) ? $args['name'] : __('Sidebar');
   		}
                   if ( $number >= 1 ) {
   			$_args['id'] = isset($args['id']) ? sprintf($args['id'], $i) : sprintf(__('Sidebar-%d'), $i);
   		}
   		register_sidebar($_args);
   	}
   }
   function bereishit_register_footer_sidebar() {
           bereishit_register_sidebars(5,
                   array( 'name'   => 'Footer %d',
                   'id'            => 'footer-%d',
   		'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   		'after_widget'  => '</div>',
   		'before_title'  => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
   		'after_title'   => '</h3>',
   	));
   }

   I feel its a bug in register_sidebars()

   As you can see i have taken the code for register_sidebars() and added few changes to give me better control over registered sidebars.

   Instead of modifying the wordpress code i choose to add this function in functions.php so that if in future register_sidebars() is fixed i can use it.

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