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How did you place the search box in the sidebar? Did you hard code it yourself? Did you use the search widget?

If you typed that search box into the sidebar yourself, you can use:

<?php get_search_form(); ?>

This will use WordPress default code. If your theme does not have a searchform.php file, WordPress uses a default search form. If you wish to customize the look of the search box, then you’ll need to create a searchform.php file. From there, you can add what you need. Here is one I use:

<?php
<form role="search" method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo home_url( '/' ); ?>">
 <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" />
 <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Search" />
</form>
?>

Still use the get_search_form() function above and it will now read your searchform.php file instead of a default form.

You are welcome… it could have also been the include statement causing a PHP error, which then caused the rest of the code to fail as well. Glad I could assist!

Ok… so apparently my code will also close the “Available Widgets” and “Inactive Widgets” meta boxes, which I didn’t notice right off the bat. If this is undesirable, and you only want the right side sidebar widgets to close, modify the code like so:

if(jQuery('#widgets-right .widgets-holder-wrap').length > 0) {
	jQuery('#widgets-right .widgets-holder-wrap').each(function() {
		jQuery(this).addClass('closed');
	});
}

I think I can assist with this… seems easy enough. First, you need to have a JavaScript file that will launch with the admin interface only. So we need to enqueue that file. In your functions.php file, add the following:

<?php
	if( is_admin() ) {
		// Register our admin script files
		wp_register_script( 'wp_admin_script', get_template_directory_uri() . '/scripts/wp-admin.js', array( 'jquery' ), '1.0', true );
		// Include custom script files to wp-admin area
		function custom_admin_scripts() {
			wp_enqueue_script( 'jquery' );
			wp_enqueue_script( 'wp_admin_script' );
		}
		add_action( 'admin_enqueue_scripts', 'custom_admin_scripts' );
	}
?>

Based on this code, you should create a file called “wp-admin.js” in a folder called “scripts” in your theme’s folder. If you wish it to be somewhere else, change the code appropriately. Also, I know jQuery is usually already launched with WordPress, but it doesn’t hurt to enqueue it just in case! The function will ignore it if it’s already running, not duplicate it.

The next piece you’ll want to do is open that wp-admin.js file and add the following to it:

jQuery(function(jQuery) {
	if(jQuery('.widgets-holder-wrap').length > 0) {
		jQuery('.widgets-holder-wrap').each(function() {
			jQuery(this).addClass('closed');
		});
	}
});

What that code does is first checks to see if there are any elements on the page that have the “.widgets-holder-wrap” class. If so, loop through each of them and add the “closed” class to them. This will close ALL sidebars by default, but still allow the functionality of click to open/close them.

If you only want to close the first one by default, let me know. It’s a little more involved, but shouldn’t be too hard.

Can you give a more details on what you are trying to accomplish? Where are you using that code? Do you have one static page that is pulling content from your WordPress site? Are you using multiple pages? Can you send a link to your existing site where the problem resides? Can you maybe show some code?

I believe I can help you with this, but right now it’s too vague for me to know where to begin.

Ok… so I am guessing you want _recipeingred to be an actual unordered list… so something like:

• Item one
• Item two
• Item three

If this is the case, we first want to get that string saved into a variable instead of just echoing it out:

$ingredients = get_post_meta( $postid, "_recipeingred", true );

Then we’ll want to break the string apart using the line breaks as a divider:

$ingredients = explode( "\n", $ingredients );

Now $ingredients is an array! We can go back to your previous foreach loop and create an unordered list:

echo '<ul>';
foreach( $ingredients as $ingredient ) {
	echo '<li>' . $ingredient . '</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';

So the whole thing should look something like this:

<?php
	if ( get_post_meta($postid, '_recipeingred', true) ) :
		// Get the variable from the database as a string
		$ingredients = get_post_meta( $postid, "_recipeingred", true );
		// Break the string up by using the line breaks (carriage returns)
		$ingredients = explode( "\n", $ingredients );
		// Echo out the title
		echo '<p>The Recipe Ingredients:</p>';
		// Start the unordered list tag
		echo '<ul>';
		// Loop through each ingredient since it's now an array thanks to the explode() function
		foreach( $ingredients as $ingredient ) {
			// Add the list item open and close tag around each array element
			echo '<li>' . $ingredient . '</li>';
		}
		// Once the loop finishes, close out the unordered list tag
		echo '</ul>';
	endif;
?>

This isn’t tested, but it should work. If there are any bugs, let me know and I’ll be able to correct them.

Oh wait… I misread your data… it looks as though the data is being stored as one long string, but it looks as though it has line breaks stored with it. In this case:

<?php
    if ( get_post_meta($postid, '_recipeingred', true) ) :
        echo '<p>The Recipe Ingredients:</p>';
        apply_filters( 'the_content', get_post_meta( $postid, "_recipeingred", true ) );
    endif;
?>

Why not try:

if( get_option( 'jr_sharethis_id' ) && is_single() )
    add_action( 'wp_head', 'jr_sharethis_head' );

Since you only want it on single posts… this code will also work for any single custom post page as well.