Sidebar missing

  • dtdl

    (@dtdl)


    14 years, 11 months ago

    I upgraded to 2.7.1 on Tuesday and it all went smoothly. Suddenly on Wednesday, the right sidebar disappeared with navigation to all my subpages. I’ve deactivated and reactivated my plugins and I’ve re-installed the upgrade. I’ve checked the code against the newest version of the theme (Fall Season 10 by Sadish) and confirmed that this line appears where it should: <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

    The website is http://dtdl.org.

    I was able to get my subpages to appear again, but they show up at the bottom of the pages, not even in the sidebar parameters. The widgets and plugins all appear to be working fine. My server hosts moved my site between servers shortly before this happened, knocking us out for about 5 minutes. Could that be related to my problem?

    Definitely new at this, extremely limited code skills, no knowledge of web hosting. Thanks for any help at all.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    The sidebar is there but doesn’t contain any links. I suspect that your theme isn’t fully compatible with WP 2.7 and that your sidebar.php file needs updating.

    Thread Starter dtdl

    (@dtdl)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Would re-installing an older version of WP fix my problem? Is that even possible?

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    It would be far easier to either use a new theme or update your current theme. Post a copy of your theme’s sidebar.php file in the WordPress pastebin and we’ll see what we can do to sort it out.

    Thread Starter dtdl

    (@dtdl)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks, esmi! I added it to the pastebin: http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1416330

    Really appreciate your help so far!

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    Your sidebar is widget-ready but is configured so that, as soon as you add the first widget, all of the previous sidebar content disappears. The reasoning behind this is that you can use widgets instead and be able to drag and drop them as needed.

    I think I may have also spotted the problem with your sidebar. It is being displayed on the underlying pages but it’s empty!

    I’ve re-structured the code to do the following:
    – if this is not the Home page, show the Pages list
    – if there are widgets installed, show these on all pages
    – if no widgets are installed, show the Link list and the site login/registration links.

    The amended code is at http://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1416791. Make a backup copy of your current sidebar.php file (for safekeeping in case anything goes pear-shaped) and then drop the new code into sidebar.php.

    If the resultant display isn’t quite what you need, the new sidebar can be tweaked a little more.

    Thread Starter dtdl

    (@dtdl)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    everything is working perfectly now. i was really at the end of my abilities and this problem would have been solved without your help. thank you so much, esmi!

    cwietzke

    (@cwietzke)

    14 years, 11 months ago

    I am having a similar problem. The image URL’s in my sidebar change on page 2. It seems to add the full URL to the path for the images. (see below) The links seem to work, but any images associated with them fasll victim to the added path.

    Note: I tried other templates which did not fix the issue.

    EXAMPLE:
    Sidebar image URL on page 1:
    http://blog.truckntow.com/wp-content/themes/truckinV1/images/warehouse-clearance-items.png

    Sidebar image URL on page 2: http://blog.truckntow.com/index.php/page/2/wp-content/themes/truckinV1/images/warehouse-clearance-items.png

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