cannot add sidebars

  • Resolved Rob Watson

    (@rcwatson)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    I really wanted to use this, but the ww_dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar_slug’); does nothing at all. I can’t even see how this works since it doesn’t modify anything in the functions.php file where all the sidebar declarations are located. Do I have to delete all those or something?

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  • Jonathan Daggerhart

    (@daggerhart)

    14 years, 9 months ago

    Hi rcwatson.

    That code doesn’t create a new sidebar, it displays a sidebar that has already been created. The normal way wordpress creates sidebars does not apply to Widget Wrangler

    I highly recommend watching the screencasts on the Widget Wrangler plugin page to get started. The first one will walk you through creating a new sidebar and placing the code into your template file.

    Screencasts

    Getting Started Screencast
    Basic Examples w/ Advanced Parsing Screencast
    Templating & PHP

    Generally, here are the steps:

    1) Install Widget Wrangler and you’ll see a new Widget Wrangler Menu in your admin interface.
    2) In that new Widget Wrangler menu on the left in the admin interface, click on Sidebars. This is where you’ll create new sidebars. Type the name of your new sidebar into the ‘Create Sidebar’ area of this page and click Create.
    3) Once the page refreshes, you’ll should see the sidebar you created and it will show the sidebar slug you need to put into the ww_dynamic_sidebar function in your template.

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