Title: rogue html
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# rogue html

 *  [Paul Owens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul-owens/)
 * (@paul-owens)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-html/)
 * HI Folks , I’m having trouble in finding the source of of my rogue text, it’s
   appearing on all pages except the home page, here’s a link to about page(end 
   of page you’ll see the text registration_sidebar etc) [http://dunamaisebeekeepers.com/index.php/about-beekeeping-in-laois/](http://dunamaisebeekeepers.com/index.php/about-beekeeping-in-laois/)
 * and here’s my php sidebar function file.Any help in this regard would be greatly
   appreciated.
 * <div id=”sidebar”>
    <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘
   Sidebar’) ) : ?> <?php endif; ?> </div> <!– end #sidebar –>
 * register_sidebars( 1,
    array( ‘name’ => ‘widgetized-page-top’, ‘before_widget’
   => ‘ <div id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div> ‘, ‘before_title’
   => ‘ <h2 class=”widgettitle”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2> ‘ ) );
 * register_sidebars( 1,
    array( ‘name’ => ‘widgetized-page-bottom’, ‘before_widget’
   => ‘ <div id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div> ‘, ‘before_title’
   => ‘ <h2 class=”widgettitle”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2> ‘ ) );

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-html/#post-5043724)
 * I can tell you exactly what’s wrong. You’re trying to mix PHP code in with your
   HTML, and doing it the wrong way, and in this case in the wrong place as well.
 * This part is where you’ve started going wrong:
 *     ```
       ...
       </div> <!-- end #sidebar -->
   
       register_sidebars( 1,
       array(
       ...
       ```
   
 * You can’t just start PHP code without an opening `<?php` tag, so if you were 
   really going to do this, it would be like:
 *     ```
       ...
       </div> <!-- end #sidebar -->
       <?php
       register_sidebars( 1,
       array(
       ...
       ```
   
 * BUT…
 * The PHP code that you have there should not be in the `sidebar.php` file. It 
   should be in the `functions.php` file of your theme, or the ‘main’ file of whatever
   plugin that you’re uisng it with. It also needs to be called by the correct action
   to work properly.
 * Something like this…
 *     ```
       <?php
       add_action( 'init', 'register_my_sidebars') ;
   
       function register_my_sidebars() {
           // Your PHP code goes in here!!!
       }
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rogue-html/#post-5043724)
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