Title: Widgets problem with Flat Bootstrap theme
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# Widgets problem with Flat Bootstrap theme
* [roccons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccons2/)
* (@roccons2)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-problem-with-flat-bootstrap-theme/)
* I had a tough time trying to get the widgets working with the Flat Bootstrap
theme.
If I switched to another theme, the widgets worked just fine, but with
this one, only the default widgets were shown, no matter the changes I did in
the admin widgets section. Also, the “widgets customizer” just thrown a message
that there were no widgets areas available. Finally, I discovered that if in
the code I changed the widget areas names for the ids, it worked! Example (in
sidebar.php) Instead of I need
to put no one else is facing
this problem?
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* [Madhusudan Pokharel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhusudan977/)
* (@madhusudan977)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-problem-with-flat-bootstrap-theme/#post-6980867)
* Hello,
The WordPress widgets are showing and customizer widgets both are working
for me without touching any code section. SEE-> [http://prntscr.com/9u2xdn](http://prntscr.com/9u2xdn)
You might have to reactivateFlat Bootstrap theme again using following Steps:
1.Click on Appearance » Themes>> Activate other theme than Flat Bootstrap theme.
2.Again,Click on Appearance » Themes>> Hover the Mouse over Active theme>> Click
the “Theme Details” button. 3.Click Next Arrow button on the top left side of
theme until you find Flat Bootstrap theme. Click Delete button 4.Go to Appearance»
Themes>> Add New >>Upload Flat Bootstrap theme. Activate the theme. Now, check
customizer section of theme again and widgets section to see if your issue is
resolved by doing so.
* Thread Starter [roccons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccons2/)
* (@roccons2)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-problem-with-flat-bootstrap-theme/#post-6980944)
* It’s really strange. I did what you suggest and the result is the same. It only
works if I modify the code.
The message I see in the customizer, instead of
the widget areas is: “At this moment, there are no areas currently displayed
in the widget preview. Browse the preview to a template that uses a widget area
to access your widgets here.”
* Thread Starter [roccons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccons2/)
* (@roccons2)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-problem-with-flat-bootstrap-theme/#post-6981018)
* I found it!
It’s a problem with the internationalization (I’m using Spanish
version). the register_sidebar function is using: ‘name’ => __( ‘Sidebar’, ‘flat-
bootstrap’ ) while the template pages are this way: if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( ‘
Slidebar’ ) ) : ?> That results in names discrepancy. So if I apply interationalization
in both places, it also works: if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( __( ‘Sidebar’, ‘flat-bootstrap’))):?
> This helps as a refference: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/_2](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/_2)
* Thread Starter [roccons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccons2/)
* (@roccons2)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-problem-with-flat-bootstrap-theme/#post-6981019)
* I just did a test that __( ‘Sidebar’, ‘flat-bootstrap’ ) returns “Barra lateral”(
which is sidebar in Spanish). That’s why it’s not working.
* I also found that an easier way to solve the widgets problem in internationalized
versions, instead of editing several files is to strip the internationalization
out of the names in register_sidebar functions.
* Mine is now this way:
* ```
function xsbf_widgets_init() {
// Put sidebar first as this is standard in almost all WordPress themes
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Sidebar',
'id' => 'sidebar-1',
'description' => __( 'Main sidebar (right or left)', 'flat-bootstrap' ),
'before_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '',
) );
// Put footer next as most themes put them here. Default # columns is 3.
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Footer',
'id' => 'sidebar-2',
'description' => __( 'Optional site footer widgets. Add 1-4 widgets here to display in columns.', 'flat-bootstrap' ),
'before_widget' => '",
'before_title' => '',
) );
// Page Top (After Header) Widget Area. Single column.
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Page Top',
'id' => 'sidebar-3',
'description' => __( 'Optional section after the header. This is a single column area that spans the full width of the page.', 'flat-bootstrap' ),
'before_widget' => '',
) );
// Page Bottom (Before Footer) Widget Area. Single Column.
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => 'Page Bottom',
'id' => 'sidebar-4',
'description' => __( 'Optional section before the footer. This is a single column area that spans the full width of the page.', 'flat-bootstrap' ),
'before_widget' => '',
) );
}
```
* [Tim Nicholson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timnicholson/)
* (@timnicholson)
* [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-problem-with-flat-bootstrap-theme/#post-6981165)
* [@roccons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccons2/), you are so awesome
for finding that and commenting on how to fix it!
* I definitely would like to leave the sidebar names translatable, so what I’ve
done is update all the calls to load the sidebar to use its “id” instead of its“
name”. So “sidebar-1”, “sidebar-2”, etc. I would love to change the id’s to something
more meaningful, but then everyone would lose their widget settings. So I’m leaving
them the way they are.
* This fix will be in the next release! (v1.7)
* Thread Starter [roccons2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccons2/)
* (@roccons2)
* [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-problem-with-flat-bootstrap-theme/#post-6981170)
* I’m glad to know you found my comment useful!
I think to achieve the behavior
that you want it could be better adding internationalization to the calls, instead
of using the id’s, as in the example: if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( __( ‘Sidebar’, ‘
flat-bootstrap’ ) ) ) : ?>
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## Tags
* [register_sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/register_sidebar/)
* [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/)
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