Problems With Widget Placement in Footer

Awesome buddy… Or it would be if the code for functions.pph didn’t cause a 500 Internal Server Error (in my dashboard, not my blog). I know it’s the functions code because I’ve entered each seperately to find out which was causing it (process of elimination), and it’s only when I enter the functions.php code that the error occurs (it’s bizarre as that particular piece of code appears to be identical to the previous one, so the combination may only be compatible with some themes…or at least not with mine 🙁 ).

Glad you got yours working though 🙂

Oh, and as for the size of the footer widgets title text, it appears to be linked to the size of the font used for post titles, so seems we’re stuck with huge footer titles unless we shrink the size of our post titles (or take a crash course in advanced CSS).

UPDATE: My mistake… I took for granted that the code was ready to use “as is”, without taking into consideration that I already have a sidebar implemented (your default sidebar appears to contained withing the first two lines of the functions.php code, whereas mine is already at the top of the functions.php file).

Awesome fix man!! 😀 (oh, and thanks! 😀 )

Shweeeeet! I should have realised, I’ve been working HTML for 8 years and that part (the Hx tag) is pure HTML, I just assumed style changes would be contained with the styles file, but nope (good ol’ WP, confusing us all for the greater good :-p ).

Cheers buddy 😀

Your code looks completely different to what we’re both using. Have you tried copying/pasting it exactly as is (except for the functions code, where the reference to the Article_Sidebar should be removed)?

Also, you refer to “pluggable.php”, where is that file contained, is is a plugin or is it a part of your theme?

UPDATE: I’ve had header errors in the past, and it turned out to be caused by my host (at the time) having Safe Mode turned off. You might want to ask yours if they have it on or off (having Safe Mode on will seriously restrict a large number scripting functions, even some basic ones employed by WordPress, such as using the ThickBox – the box which appears when you click the Add Image button while creating a post/page) – to upload images).

I have a feeling it may be an issue with your theme, but I can’t be sure without trying it myself (I’ll try to give it a go over the next day or so).

As for the code placement, I placed the CSS code at the bottom of the file, the footer code directly below the default footer code (below the <?php wp_footer(); ?> call), and added the functions code to the pre-defined sidebar code (if you haven’t edited the Article_Sidebar code you should be able to replace it completely with the code in this thread).

This is what I ended up with:

Footer.php:

<div class="clear"></div>

</div>

<div id="footer_bg">

<div id="footer">

    <div id="footer_left">

        - &copy; Copyright 2009 - <a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a> -

        <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>"><img style="vertical-align:middle" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/rss.gif" alt="Subscribe to <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>">&nbsp;News Feed</a>

        <a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>"><img style="vertical-align:middle;margin-left:10px;" src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/rss.gif" alt="Subscribe to <?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" /></a><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">&nbsp;Comments RSS</a>

        - Design by <a href="http://www.wp-them.es" title="free premium wordpress themes" target="_blank">wp-them.es</a> -

    </div>

    <div id="footer_right">

        <a class="wplogo" href="http://wordpress.org/" title="wordpress" target="_blank"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/wp.png" alt="Blog Tool and Publishing Platform" /></a>

    </div>

<div class="clear"></div>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

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

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

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

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

</div>

</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Functions.php:

<?php
 if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Article Sidebar','before_widget' => '<div class="widget">','after_widget' => '</div>','before_title' => '<h2>','after_title' => '</h2>',));
 if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'FooterLeft','before_widget' => '<div class="widget">','after_widget' => '</div>','before_title' => '<h2>','after_title' => '</h2>',));
 if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'FooterCenter','before_widget' => '<div class="widget">','after_widget' => '</div>','before_title' => '<h2>','after_title' => '</h2>',));
 if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'FooterRight','before_widget' => '<div class="widget">','after_widget' => '</div>','before_title' => '<h2>','after_title' => '</h2>',));
 if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'FooterExtremeRight','before_widget' => '<div class="widget">','after_widget' => '</div>','before_title' => '<h2>','after_title' => '</h2>',));

It’s been working fine for me but I will try your theme when I get the chance and hopefully get to the bottom of this 🙂

UPDATE:

I used the code that you provided, customized it and it worked! It gave me the error message the but stopped doing so after the second time. This is what it looks like:

FOOTER

<div id="footer">
<div class="navbar-top">
</div>

<div class="clear"></div>

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

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

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

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

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

</div>

<div id="footer_bg">

<div id="footer">

            <div class="footer-mid">
                &copy; <?php the_time('Y');?> <a href="<?php bloginfo('siteurl'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('title'); ?></a>.  Design by <a href="http://ftlthemes.forthelose.org">Ralph Damiano</a>.<br />
				This free theme is sponsored by <a href="http://www.edubook.com/">Online Article Publishing</a> and <a href="http://edu.udym.com/tips-for-a-bridesmaid-in-giving-a-wedding-speech/">Bridesmaid Speeches</a>.
            </div>
            <div class="navbar-bottom">
            </div>

</div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

Note: the nav top and bottom div classes are rounded cornered elements that contain the footer with a transparent black bg like the theme in the CSS code.

I had issues with the footer_extreme_right column always showing up in the footer_right column but I thinks it’s got to do with CSS properties, which I’m currently trying to work out.

Other then that, THANK YOU T.L.L. AND Ishan001, It’s not everyday that people are willing to help one another. I’ll check back to see how yours turned out.

FUNCTION:

<?php
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(
‘name’ => ‘sidebar’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”sidebar-box”><div class=”sidebar-top”></div><div class=”sidebar-middle”>’,
‘after_widget’ => ‘</div><div class=”sidebar-bottom”></div></div>’,
‘before_title’ => ‘<h1>’,
‘after_title’ => ‘</h1>’,
));
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>’FooterLeft’,’before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget”>’,’after_widget’ => ‘</div>’,’before_title’ => ‘<h2>’,’after_title’ => ‘</h2>’,));
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>’FooterCenter’,’before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget”>’,’after_widget’ => ‘</div>’,’before_title’ => ‘<h2>’,’after_title’ => ‘</h2>’,));
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>’FooterRight’,’before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget”>’,’after_widget’ => ‘</div>’,’before_title’ => ‘<h2>’,’after_title’ => ‘</h2>’,));
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>’FooterExtremeRight’,’before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget”>’,’after_widget’ => ‘</div>’,’before_title’ => ‘<h2>’,’after_title’ => ‘</h2>’,));
?>

Awesome! Is it working as it should do now? I’ve just realised there’s no link to your blog, if there are anymore issues with it post its link and it may help speed up tracking down the solution (oh, and you’re very welcome (^_^))