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1. bottleneck
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi, everyone.

   I got a few sidebar templates since WP 2.2 . They all worked fine through WP 2.6 ( I tweaked general-template.php)

   Yet I got stuck with the newest general-template.php in 2.7.

   To be short, how do I need to tweak the code to get "special" (as they put it) specified?

   The piece of general-template.php 2.7 code follows:

   /**
    * Load sidebar template.
    *
    * Includes the sidebar template for a theme or if a name is specified then a
    * specialised sidebar will be included. If the theme contains no sidebar.php
    * file then the sidebar from the default theme will be included.
    *
    * For the parameter, if the file is called "sidebar-special.php" then specify
    * "special".
    *
    * @uses locate_template()
    * @since 1.5.0
    * @uses do_action() Calls 'get_sidebar' action.
    *
    * @param string $name The name of the specialised sidebar.
    */
   function get_sidebar( $name = null ) {
   	do_action( 'get_sidebar' );
   
   	$templates = array();
   	if ( isset($name) )
   		$templates[] = "sidebar-{$name}.php";
   
   	$templates[] = "sidebar.php";
   
   	if ('' == locate_template($templates, true))
   		load_template( get_theme_root() . '/default/sidebar.php');
   }

   All my attempts return "Call to undefined function ..." so far..

2. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   To be short, how do I need to tweak the code to get "special" (as they put it) specified?

   If you have a custom sidebar in your theme, named "sidebar-special.php", then a theme template (like single.php or index.php or archive.php, etc) can call get_sidebar('special'); to get that sidebar. Normally, themes call get_sidebar(); without any parameters.

   If you call get_sidebar('special'); and no sidebar-special.php exists in the theme, it'll get the normal sidebar.php instead.

3. bottleneck
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks, Otto.

   I would've tweaked that file all my life having no clue that no tweak is needed :)

   Everything works!

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