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1. adelphadesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Hi, I have try this lots and can't seam to get it working... I have created 2 side bars, sidebar.php & sidebar-custom.php which I am trying to widgetize.
   Sidebar 2 appears in my dashboard but nothing appears when I add a widget.
   The code in my function.php is;
   

   <?php
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar();
   ?>
   <?php if ( function_exists ('register_sidebar')) {
       register_sidebar ('sidebar-custom');
   } ?>

   and the code in my sidebar-custom.php is;
   

   <ul class=”sidebar”>
   	<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-custom') ) : ?>
   <?php endif; ?>

   Please can someone help, Thanks

2. Frumph
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   <?php get_sidebar('custom'); ?>

   You are registering it, you are having a page that gets called... but your not calling it.

   Unless you just forgot to add that part.

3. adelphadesign
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Sorry forgot to mention the inclusion of <?php get_sidebar('custom'); ?>

4. Frumph
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Your 'register_sidebar('sidebar-custom')' should probably just be register_sidebar('custom')

5. clockeby
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I'm haivng a similar issue...

   Frumph, my sidebar pages are named like adelpha's. I have some pages with like names (gallery, etc.) so I named the sidebar pages "sidebar-gallery" just to differentiate.

   My issue is, the various sidebars are showing up in the widget page and I'm populating them with different widgets, but no matter what I put in, they all have the same widgets.

   function.php:
   

   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
   	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar_default',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h2>',
   		'after_title' => '</h2>',
   	));
   	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar_gallery',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h2>',
   		'after_title' => '</h2>',
   	));
   	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar_about',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h2>',
   		'after_title' => '</h2>',
   	));
   }

   sidebar_default:
   

   <?php 	/* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
   					if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_default') ) : ?>

   page.php:
   

   <?php get_sidebar('sidebar_default'); ?>

   sidebar_gallery & gallery.php have the same code with the names replaced accordingly (gallery.php being a custom template page).

   No matter what widgets I add in to those sidebars, every one of them is a copy of sidebar_default.php.

   What am I doing wrong here?!
   Thanks in advance!

6. Frumph
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   ^ get_sidebar is where your problem is

   when you put get_sidebar('name') it checks your php files for sidebar-name.php The only reference for that name => in your register sidebar should be a part of the dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_about') part

   for example.

   In your theme you put get_sidebar('inblog'); it will then go and look for the file sidebar-inblog.php if it doesnt find it, it will revert to sidebar.php

   Inside your sidebar.php file or sidebar-inblog you have the dynamic-sidebar('sidebar_inblog') that you registered.

   get_sidebar does *not* use the reference of the sidebar registered it uses the reference of which file to load.

7. clockeby
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   Thanks, I think see what you're saying. In function.php and the associated sidebar file (sidebar_custom.php) I use the full file name (sidebar_custom) but when calling it via the actual page I just use 'custom'. Am I reading that correctly?

   Does the separator matter? I mean, using sidebar-custom.php instead of sidebar_custom.php? Do I have a syntax error as well?

8. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I believe it should be sidebar-custom.php, with the hyphen, not with _ underscore

   also, you name the file sidebar-custom.php, that is the only time you use the full name sidebar-custom

   in functions.php it's just 'name'=>'custom',
   when called in a template it's just <?php get_sidebar ('custom'); ?>

9. dcman007
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I hope someone can help me as I've been stuck on this for 2 days...

   I want a sidebar on the left, my content in the middle and another sidebar on the right (3 column layout). No matter what I do my theme doesn't recognise my custom sidebar files and only ever display the code from sidebar.php. If I remove sidebar.php from my custom theme then it reverts to using the sidebar.php file in the default theme folder.

   Below is a list of my files and code used in them:

   I have one file called sidebar-left.php and another called sidebar-right.php

   In my theme's index.php file I have the following code:

   <?php get_sidebar('$left'); ?>
   <?php get_sidebar('$right'); ?>

   in my functions.php file I have this code:

   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
   
   	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar-left',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h2>',
   		'after_title' => '</h2>',
   	));
   
   	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar-right',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h2>',
   		'after_title' => '</h2>',
   	));
   }

   Both of my sidebars are showing in my WP Admin Panel and I can add widgets to them, but neither of them will display in on my page.

   Really hoping someone can provide assistance with this. Thanks in advance.

10. Frumph
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #
    

    get_sidebar('$left');

    will try to find the file sidebar-$left.php

    get rid of the $ first, fix the name of the file.

    i.e. get_sidebar('left'); so the file it looks for is sidebar-left.php

    <?php dynamic-sidebar('sidebar-right'); ?>

    will display that sidebar where you want it to in your page

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