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1. blogtorres
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello does anyone know how i can add a extra side bar in kubric 1.5 I have tryed to google and found a site http://www.blogohblog.com/adding-extra-sidebar-to-your-wordpress-theme/ but when i come to step 3 editing the <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php'); ?> Anyone know what i can do to ad an extra sidebar? Maby an more easy way?

2. Rev. Voodoo
   Volunteer Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   well, if you registered the sidebar properly in functions.php you can use it like this.... create the new sidebar file and name it sidebar-something.php

   Example:
   here's the code from my functions.php
   

   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
        register_sidebar(array(
          'name'=>'Sidebar',
          'before_widget' => '<li class="widget" id="%1$s"><div class="widgetBG">',
          'after_widget' => '</div><div class="widgetBottom"></div></li>',
          'before_title' => '<div class="widgetTitle">',
          'after_title' => '</div>',
         ));
        register_sidebar(array(
          'name'=>'TopWidget',
          'before_widget' => '<li class="topWidget" id="%1$s"><div class="topWidgetBG">',
          'after_widget' => '</div><div class="topWidgetBottom"></div></li>',
          'before_title' => '<div class="topWidgetTitle"><span class="topText">',
          'after_title' => '</span></div>',
         ));

   this creates 2 sidebars.... one named Sidebar, and one named TopWidget (don't get confused by the before/after widget and before/after title, that's formatting stuff that I use)

   After that, I created two files... one was just the standard sidebar.php, and one was named sidebar-topWidget.php

   now, I have registered 2 sidebars, and I have created them. To call them I do this:

   <?php get_sidebar(); ?> calls the normal sidebar, the one named sidebar.php, I'm pretty sure this is how kubrick calls the standard sidebar

   to use my second sidebar, I call this:
   <?php get_sidebar ('topWidget'); ?> this calls up the second sidebar, which in my case was named sidebar-topWidget.php

3. blogtorres
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   will i be putting this code in sidebar-topWidget.php
   

   <div>
   <ul>
   <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && ('dynamic_topWidget' ) : else : ?>
   <?php endif; ?>
   </ul>
   </div>

   or am i just totaly wrong here?

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