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what theme are you using?
are you using widgets under ‘dashboard – appearance – widgets’?
I’m using the theme Madeini which is a child theme of TwentyFourteen I believe. And I am using widgets under ‘dashboard-appearance – widgets’ to order my images and social media icons. I’ve tried using the custum menu option under widgets, but I like the look that I get from ‘dashboard- appearance – menus’ better.
here is a link to my site http://www.srcgraphics.com
the menu is hardcoded into the first position of the sidebar – to change that, you might need to create a new sidebar.php in your child theme, and/or edit functions.php as well…
for example, you could add a new widget area for widgets to appear above the menu:
add this new sidebar.php into the child theme:
<?php
/**
* The Sidebar containing the main widget area
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Fourteen
* @since Twenty Fourteen 1.0
*/
?>
<div id="secondary">
<?php
$description = get_bloginfo( 'description', 'display' );
if ( ! empty ( $description ) ) :
?>
<h2 class="site-description"><?php echo esc_html( $description ); ?></h2>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-4' ) ) : ?>
<div id="primary-sidebar-top" class="primary-sidebar widget-area" role="complementary">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-4' ); ?>
</div><!-- #primary-sidebar-top -->
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( has_nav_menu( 'secondary' ) ) : ?>
<nav role="navigation" class="navigation site-navigation secondary-navigation">
<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'secondary' ) ); ?>
</nav>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ) ) : ?>
<div id="primary-sidebar" class="primary-sidebar widget-area" role="complementary">
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ); ?>
</div><!-- #primary-sidebar -->
<?php endif; ?>
</div><!-- #secondary -->
add this to the bottom of functions.php of your child theme:
/**
* Register fourth widget area for above sidebar menu.
*/
function madeini_widgets_init() {
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => __( 'Primary Sidebar Top', 'twentyfourteen' ),
'id' => 'sidebar-4',
'description' => __( 'Main sidebar on the left, widgets above menu.', 'twentyfourteen' ),
'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</aside>',
'before_title' => '<h1 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h1>',
) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'madeini_widgets_init', 9 );
(not widely tested)
for other ideas, and further details, please post in your theme’s forum at https://wordpress.org/support/theme/madeini#postform
Ok I created a new sidebar.php page and added the code to the functions.php page. It created an option to add widgets above the menu, I added two image widgets. But when I view my page, I don’t see any of the widgets I just added. I can only see the widgets below the menu.
you might need to clear the cache;
<!-- Cached page generated by WP-Super-Cache on 2015-05-25 01:00:29 -->
Is there another way to clear the cache besides going into WP-Super-Cache and deleting everything? I tried, and I still can’t see my widgets in the sidebar.
Nothing works. I tried re-copying the code. Still can’t see anything
what are the exact full codes of sidebar.php and functions.php of the child theme?
