get_sidebar

  • slavix

    (@slavix)


    16 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,
    I am having trouble getting my sidebars working properly..
    My templates says

    <?php get_sidebar('left'); ?>
..
<?php get_sidebar('right'); ?>

    and that loads sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php that I have defined.
    My functions.php has

    if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'left',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h4>',
		'after_title' => '</h4>',
	));
	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'right',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h4>',
		'after_title' => '</h4>',
	));

    And I see these sidebars named ‘left and ‘right’ show up in widgets menu. I tried adding widgets to the sidebars, but they don’t show up on my sidebars.. where is the problem?

    thanks,
    Slava

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    What are your sidebar files called? They should be sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php.

    Thread Starter slavix

    (@slavix)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    As I mentioned in the original post the sidebar files are named sidebar-left.php and sidebar-right.php

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Sorry – missed that.

    There’s a missing closing } in your functions.php code. Is that just a copy’n’paste error?

    What’s in your sidebar files?

    miocene22

    (@miocene22)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Try removing the final trailing commas for each of the sidebar arrays in functions.php. The last item in the array should not have a comma

    Thread Starter slavix

    (@slavix)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    ok. made the changes, but it still does not work..
    functions.php:

    <?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'left',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h4>',
		'after_title' => '</h4>'
	));
	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'right',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h4>',
		'after_title' => '</h4>'
	));
}
?>

    sidebar-left.php:

    <div id="right_sidebar" class="tRightSidebar">
    <p>
        <img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/template/tSpacerRightColumn.gif" width="210" height="40" />
    </p>
    <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('right_sidebar') ) : else : ?>

                    <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category_before=<div id="tRightColumnInset1">&category_after=</div>&title_before=<h4>&title_after=</h4>&categorize=1&category=2,7,6&orderby=id&category_orderby=id&show_description=0'); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
</div>

    sidebar-left.php:

    <div id="left_sidebar" class="tLeftSidebar">

</div>

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Try:

    sidebar-left.php:

    <div id="right_sidebar" class="tRightSidebar">
    <p>
        <img src="<?php echo bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/images/template/tSpacerRightColumn.gif" width="210" height="40" />
    </p>
    <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('right') ) : else : ?>

                    <?php wp_list_bookmarks('category_before=<div id="tRightColumnInset1">&category_after=</div>&title_before=<h4>&title_after=</h4>&categorize=1&category=2,7,6&orderby=id&category_orderby=id&show_description=0'); ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
</div>

    sidebar-left.php:

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

    Thread Starter slavix

    (@slavix)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    thanks! that worked.

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