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1. slavix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hello,
   I am having trouble getting my sidebars working properly..
   My templates says

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

   and that loads sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php that I have defined.
   My functions.php has

   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
   	register_sidebar(array(
   		'name' => 'left',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h4>',
   		'after_title' => '</h4>',
   	));
   	register_sidebar(array(
   		'name' => 'right',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h4>',
   		'after_title' => '</h4>',
   	));

   And I see these sidebars named 'left and 'right' show up in widgets menu. I tried adding widgets to the sidebars, but they don't show up on my sidebars.. where is the problem?

   thanks,
   Slava

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What are your sidebar files called? They should be sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php.

3. slavix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   As I mentioned in the original post the sidebar files are named sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry - missed that.

   There's a missing closing } in your functions.php code. Is that just a copy'n'paste error?

   What's in your sidebar files?

5. miocene22
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try removing the final trailing commas for each of the sidebar arrays in functions.php. The last item in the array should not have a comma

6. slavix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   ok. made the changes, but it still does not work..
   functions.php:
   

   <?php
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
   	register_sidebar(array(
   		'name' => 'left',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h4>',
   		'after_title' => '</h4>'
   	));
   	register_sidebar(array(
   		'name' => 'right',
   		'before_widget' => '<li>',
   		'after_widget' => '</li>',
   		'before_title' => '<h4>',
   		'after_title' => '</h4>'
   	));
   }
   ?>

   sidebar-left.php:
   

   <div id="right_sidebar" class="tRightSidebar">
       <p>
           <img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/template/tSpacerRightColumn.gif" width="210" height="40" />
       </p>
       <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('right_sidebar') ) : else : ?>
   
                       <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category_before=<div id="tRightColumnInset1">&category_after=</div>&title_before=<h4>&title_after=</h4>&categorize=1&category=2,7,6&orderby=id&category_orderby=id&show_description=0'); ?>
       <?php endif; ?>
   </div>

   sidebar-left.php:
   

   <div id="left_sidebar" class="tLeftSidebar">
   
   </div>

7. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try:

   sidebar-left.php:
   

   <div id="right_sidebar" class="tRightSidebar">
       <p>
           <img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/template/tSpacerRightColumn.gif" width="210" height="40" />
       </p>
       <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('right') ) : else : ?>
   
                       <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category_before=<div id="tRightColumnInset1">&category_after=</div>&title_before=<h4>&title_after=</h4>&categorize=1&category=2,7,6&orderby=id&category_orderby=id&show_description=0'); ?>
       <?php endif; ?>
   </div>

   sidebar-left.php:
   

   <div id="left_sidebar" class="tLeftSidebar">
   <?php if (!function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('left')) : ?>
   <?php endif;?>
   </div>

8. slavix
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   thanks! that worked.

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