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1. jami1955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   In this post:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-with-widgetsdynamic-sidebar-not-showing

   the problem of dynamic sidebars not showing was answered with the advice:
   Try looking in functions.php for register_sidebar().

   There was no further comments in that thread. I have the same problem, I checked in functions.php, as well as widgets.php, and my theme's functions.php, and the only thing that shows up (global functions.php) is
   function register_sidebars($number = 1, $args = array())

   followed by the arguments.

   How do I know if I need the singular register_sidebar() defined, and how would I enter it into the funtions.php? In other words, how can I get those marvelous widgets that partially sold me on the theme to actually show up?

   thanks
   JSC

2. jami1955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   PS. The theme is compatible with the WP version I'm using, AND the sidebars show up on some of the pages. There is a sidebar "Bottom Middle" for instance in admin, I've configured it, it's called by

   <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Bottom-Middle') ) : ?>

   and no show... is there a way to check if it's named properly? Because that's how it's being called. Or do I need to go register the singular
   register_sidebar(Bottom-Middle); somewhere?

3. jami1955
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   ooops.
   sorry for this messy post.
   I just found this in the theme functions.php:
   

   register_sidebar(array(
           'name' => 'Bottom-Middle',
           'before_widget' => '<div class="item">',
           'after_widget' => '</div>',
           'before_title' => '<h3 class="sub">',
           'after_title' => '</h3>',
       ));

   so, there it is registered, and not showing up.... any input would be welcome... if you can wade through this post.
   thanks
   JSC

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