Widgetizing a custom sidebar

  • Resolved onethousandseas

    (@onethousandseas)


    16 years, 8 months ago

    I think I’m doing this wrong:

    I’m trying to put in a custom sidebar, so I made a file named “sidebar-optional.php”.

    In the file I put:

    <div id="optionalsidebarcss">
<ul style="list-style: none;">
<?php if ( function_exists ( dynamic_sidebar(sidebar-optional) ) ) : ?>
<?php dynamic_sidebar (sidebar-optional); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>
</div>

    In the functions.php file I put:

    <?php 

if ( function_exists ('register_sidebar')) {
    register_sidebar ('sidebar-optional');
} 

?>

    However, any widgets I put in this sidebar won’t show up.

    Any suggestions?

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  • Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Change.

    <?php if ( function_exists ( dynamic_sidebar(sidebar-optional) ) ) : ?>
<?php dynamic_sidebar (sidebar-optional); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

    to.

    <?php if ( function_exists ( 'dynamic_sidebar' ) && dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-optional') ) : endif; ?>

    Thread Starter onethousandseas

    (@onethousandseas)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Darn, unfortunately that doesn’t work either. Any other ideas?

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    When that’s the same code i use to display one of my sidebars…

    Perhaps there’s a problem with the registering sidebar code…

    Try using this format..

    register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'PUTNAMEHERE',
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget' => '',
		'before_title' => '<h2>',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));

    Thread Starter onethousandseas

    (@onethousandseas)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    Success! Thank you so much!

    (Weird because my regular sidebars worked fine on the code I showed you but hey as long as it works 🙂

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    16 years, 8 months ago

    No worries.. 🙂

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