• Hi,

    I’m trying to make the sidebar for my non-blog pages different from the sidebar for my blog page. I’m following the instructions here:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar

    I created a child of the twentyeleven theme, and I created a new functions.php file in the child theme folder. Functions.php contains:
    `<?php
    if ( function_exists (‘register_sidebar’)) {
    register_sidebar (‘custom’);
    ?>’

    According to the instructions, “You will see your sidebars now listed in ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Widgets’.” But I still just see the main sidebar and the showcase sidebar.

    Did I do something wrong?

    P.S. I tried duplicating the sidebar.php document from the twentyeleven folder, labelling it sidebar-custom.php, and putting it in the twentyeleven-child folder, but that makes no difference.

    P.P.S. I noticed that the instructions tell me that “In wp-includes/widgets.php you find the function-definition for register-sidebars()” but I don’t see a folder named “wp-includes” or any files named “widgets.php”.

    P.P.P.S. I noticed some inconsistency in the instructions about “register_sidebar” versus “register_sidebars”. I tried both unsuccessfully.

    Thanks,
    Matt

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