My side bar is not showing in my presentation page.

  • shlomof

    (@shlomof)


    16 years ago

    Hello,
    My right side bar is not showing at all on the presentation menu, though the are some default right side bar when looking at the blog it self.

    my blog is: http://www.trektheunknown.com

    Can someone guide me whet I need to do? I lloked at the help and tryied different solutions, non of them worked.

    I have this part in my index.php file/ maye that means something:

    <?php
    $current_page = $post->ID; // Hack to prevent the no sidebar error
    include_once(“sidebar-right.php”);
    //get_sidebar();
    ?>

    can someone also tell me what this part means?

    thanks,
    shlomo

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  • TrishaM

    (@trisham)

    16 years ago

    That code simply checks to see if the current page is for a single post as indicated by the post’s ID number, and if so it includes the file called sidebar-right.php.

    It also means the Theme developer did not “register” the right sidebar correctly for it to show up under your Presentation menu ( I assume you mean so that you can put widgets in it?)
    EDIT: (sorry I mispoke so corrected here)

    If you don’t need to add widgets then registering your sidebar(s) is not important – but if you want your sidebar to show up on all pages that use your index.php file then remove the line that checks if the current_page = $post->ID

    Thread Starter shlomof

    (@shlomof)

    16 years ago

    I want to add widgets…so it seems my sidebars are not registered properly.

    here is the relevant piece of code for that:

    ‘<?php
    if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebars’) )
    register_sidebars(2, array(
    ‘before_widget’ => ‘<!–sidebox start –><div id=”%1$s” class=”dbx-box %2$s”>’,
    ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div></div><!–sidebox end –>’,
    ‘before_title’ => ‘<h3 class=”dbx-handle”>’,
    ‘after_title’ => ‘</h3><div class=”dbx-content”>’,
    ));
    ?>’

    as I said, on my presentation menu the 1nd side bar doesn’t appear. but it seems to me from what I read that this is the way it suppose to be registered. am I wrong?

    thanks,
    shlomo

    Thread Starter shlomof

    (@shlomof)

    15 years, 12 months ago

    Hello,
    Anybody can might help with this problem?

    thanks,
    shlomo

    boober

    (@boober)

    15 years, 12 months ago

    in 2.5, the widget presentation area doesnt show all sidebars at once. theres a dropdown menu to choose your sidebars and add widgets
    screenshot:
    http://skitch.com/bewmedia/j4jk/sidebar

    Thread Starter shlomof

    (@shlomof)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    I know that…but when I press the drop down menu I have only one option which is “sidebar 1”. so I’m still looking for that solution.

    thanks,
    shlomo

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