Title: Sidebars won't show
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Sidebars won't show

 *  Resolved [ghulst](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ghulst/)
 * (@ghulst)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-wont-show/)
 * I like the PR News theme. So I have installed it on my [Tour de France Now](http://tourdefrancenow.com)
   site.
 * The only thing for me, was that it was missing a widget area. So, I added another
   widget area that I called topbar.
 * I created a child theme and added this line to the functions.php:
    `register_sidebar(
   array('name' => 'topbar', 'id' => 'topbar', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s"
   class="widget %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "</div>", 'before_title' => '<h4 class
   ="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h4>'));`
 * And then added the code for the topbar in the header.php:
 *     ```
       <?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'topbar' ) ) : ?>
       	<div id="topbar" class="topbar widget-area" role="complementary">
       		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'topbar' ); ?>
       	</div><!-- #primary-topbar -->
       ```
   
 * The widget area shows the topbar and it does show both sidebars. However, the
   site only shows the topbar, not the sidebars.
 * So, I decided to re-register the sidebars in the child themes’ function.php:
 *     ```
       register_sidebar(array('name' => 'sidebar-left', 'id' => 'sidebar-left', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "</div>", 'before_title' => '<h4 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h4>'));
       register_sidebar(array('name' => 'sidebar-right', 'id' => 'sidebar-right', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "</div>", 'before_title' => '<h4 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h4>'));
       register_sidebar(array('name' => 'topbar', 'id' => 'topbar', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">', 'after_widget' => "</div>", 'before_title' => '<h4 class="widget-title">', 'after_title' => '</h4>'));
       ```
   
 * However, this has not solved it. It still shows all three areas in the widget
   area, but when I put anything in the right sidebar area (and yes, the theme is
   set on homepage with right sidebar. 😉 )

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 *  Theme Author [PResponsive](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allis741/)
 * (@allis741)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-wont-show/#post-6301889)
 * Create sidebar-topbar.php file

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