Widgetizing help!!

  • Linda

    (@imprefectlin)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    Hello guys, I hope I can get some help with this. D: (Also, I apologize if this question has been asked before, but I can’t realistically look though 1593 pages of them!)

    I’ve been trying to “Widgetize” the theme I made for my blog/personal site (http://www.technicolor-dreams.com/wm) using these instructions:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgetizing_Themes

    No matter how hard I try, and how exactly I follow the instructions, I can’t seem to get it working. I constantly get the pink “No sidebars defined” error box when I go into “Appearance > Widgets” in WordPress’ admin panel.

    Here’s what my header.php file looks like (At least the bit in which I call the sidebar):

    </div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<div id="content" style="position: absolute; top: 160px; left: 455px; width: 405px; padding: 10px">

    And this is what my sidebar.php file’s beginning looks like, where I put the php code from that help page (I even changed the markup of this to use ul and li tags):

    <ul id="sidebar" style="position: absolute; top: 112px; left: 875px; width: 245px; padding: 5px">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
        || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<ul><li><img src="/wm/whaaaat.jpg" style="position:relative; left: -25px"><br /><br /></li></ul>

    And here’s the end, where I put the rest of the php code from the help page (Although I guess this part isn’t that important to show, since it’s just closing the if loop):

    <li><img src="/wm/sb_header_5.png" style="position:absolute; left: 0px"></li>
<?php endif; ?>
</ul>

    Lastly, this is what I have in my functions.php file. I didn’t have a functions file earlier, so this is all that’s there:

    <?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar();
?>

    Am I doing something wrong that I don’t know about? :/ I’m not very experienced with php code, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there was something I was doing wrong. If anyone could help me, I’d be inexplicably grateful!! 🙂

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  • Thread Starter Linda

    (@imprefectlin)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Anyone? D: I’d really like to get the sidebar “Widgetized”.

    zanzaboonda

    (@zanzaboonda)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Hi imprefectlin,

    This is my very first time doing this to and I literally spent hours agonizing over this very issue. What (I think) finally did it for me, and I know this makes no sense, is I added the 

    <?php endif; ?>

    tag underneath the php function so it read like this:

    `<div id=”sidebar”>
    <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
    || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
    <?php endif; ?>
    <div class=”title”>About</div>
    <p>This is my blog.</p>
    <div class=”title”>Links</div>

    <?php endif; ?>
    </div>

    I read this on some other website. But then I got an error saying that the endif was unexpected. So I deleted it and then, oddly, it worked.

    This is completely illogical so I imagine something else had to be going on but that’s when it seemed to work for me.

    I hope this helps. Otherwise I have no idea. lol

    Best wishes,
    Kristen

    zanzaboonda

    (@zanzaboonda)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Man that was ugly. here’s how it should have looked:

    <div id="sidebar">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
        || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
 <div class="title">About</div>
 <p>This is my blog.</p>
 <div class="title">Links</div>
 <ul>
  <li><a href="http://example.com">Example</a></li>
 </ul>
</div>

    Let’s hope that works this time!

    Thread Starter Linda

    (@imprefectlin)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for trying to help me! You’re the only one so far, obviously, haha.

    Unfortunately I couldn’t get mine to work with the technique you used…but thanks for sharing it! I’ll just keep looking I suppose.

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