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1. tooone7
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi there, i need help regarding widgets.

   I have sidebars and when i add text to them via Appearance>Widgets, its fine. But when i refresh that page, it resets the text for the sidebar to nothing.

   This means i can add text and stuff to my custom sidebars once, but when i want to go back to edit a page, all of the sidebars would be reset.

   Any ideas what might cause this?

   I have a functions.php file and in it i create a seperate sidebar widget for every page and name each one according to the page name.

   Thanks a lot for any help

2. tooone7
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Edit: Foregot to add the first 3 variables.

   Here is the code in my functions.php page:

   $pagecount = count(get_pages('parent=0'));
   $names = array();
   $IDs = array();
   
   function getNames() {
   		$i = 0;
   		$pages = get_pages();
   
   		foreach($pages as $page) {
   			$name = $page->post_title;
   			$names[$i] = $name;
   
   			$id = $page->ID;
   			$IDs[$i] = $id;
   
   			if ( function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
   				register_sidebar(array(
   					'name' => $names[$i],
   					'id' => $IDs[$i],
   					'description' => '',
   					'before_widget' => "<div class='left_mid'>",
   					'after_widget' => '</div>',
   					'before_title' => "<h2 class='cusstom'>",
   					'after_title' => '</h2>'));
   			}
   			$i++;
   		}
   	}
   
   	getNames();
   
   	if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
   		//create the default widget. If no text is entered in another widget, the default text will be displayed
   		register_sidebar(array(
   			'name' => 'Default',
   			'id' => 'default',
   			'description' => 'The default text that should be displayed. Is overridden when text is entered in another widget for the page.',
   			'before_widget' => "<div class='left_mid'>",
   			'after_widget' => '</div>',
   			'before_title' => "<h2 class='cusstom'>",
   			'after_title' => '</h2>'));
   	}

   The "default sidebar doesnt reset when i refresh the page. All the others do. Why is that?

3. tooone7
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I found the solution.

   I made the id the same as the name instead of IDs[$i].

   I have no idea why this fixed the problem. Could anyone that has more knowledge please tell me why it didnt work with id = $IDs[$i]?

   Thanks

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