WordPress 5.8 added the ability to add Blocks to sidebars. Blocks do not use the title and markup defined for a sidebar. They just use the normal HTML they would use in the editor. “Legacy” widgets can still be added, and should still have the option to enter a title and use the markup defined … Read more
Register sidebar. add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpse_123456_widgets_init’ ); function wpse_123456_widgets_init() { $args = array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Sidebar name’, ‘theme_text_domain’ ), ‘id’ => ‘unique-sidebar-id’, ‘description’ => ”, ‘class’ => ”, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</li>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”widgettitle”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’ ); if ( function_exists (‘register_sidebar’)) { register_sidebar( $args ); } } … Read more
The two functions at your disposal are register_sidebar and dynamic_sidebar – despite the name, they don’t need to have anything to do with a “sidebar” in the traditional sense. As for the term “widget”, this is nothing more than a chunk of code that takes some settings and outputs some content. A user can assign … Read more
So, after some more testing, I figured out why it was not saving like it should. I was including the meta during init when it was in the admin panel, but not for anywhere else. Thus when it was being saved (assuming that it was saving as not admin) the meta field was not there … Read more
Hook into ‘dynamic_sidebar’ and count how often it is called. You get the current active sidebar with key( $GLOBALS[‘wp_registered_sidebars’] ). add_action( ‘dynamic_sidebar’, ‘wpse_96681_hr’ ); function wpse_96681_hr( $widget ) { static $counter = 0; // right sidebar in Twenty Ten. Adjust to your needs. if ( ‘primary-widget-area’ !== key( $GLOBALS[‘wp_registered_sidebars’] ) ) return; if ( 0 … Read more
Check your template file from your theme. There may be some widgets being added in there manually if no other widgets are enabled. If that’s the case modify the conditional statement in your sidebar template so your widgets are output after the defaults set there. @s_ha_dum basically got to the bottom of it.
Try this in your functions.php function your_widget(){ register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => ‘Footer Column 2’, ‘id’ => ‘footer-column-2’, // I also added the ID but doesn’t work ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div id=”%1$s” class=”omc-footer-widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h4>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h4>’ )); } add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘your_widget’ ); Call in footer.php with the ID. <?php if ( … Read more
I don’t think it is possible in a nice user friendly way. WordPress admin screen and the customizer assume that any widget can get into any sidebar and will show them as part of the admin, so even if you filter out the widgets you do not want, it will probably create a lot of … Read more
Widgets are stored in the wp_options table ( assuming the database prefix is wp_ ). You can retrieve the option, and remove the widgets manually: // Get all the associated widgets $sidebar_widgets = get_option ( ‘sidebars_widgets’ ); // Check this specific sidebar if ( isset( $sidebar_widgets [ ‘lateral-header-sidebar’ ] ) ) { unset ( $sidebar_widgets … Read more
If you fill class parameter to register_sidebar function then the class sidebar-{class name} gets added to the div of that sidebar in the back end. For example if you register the sidebar using following code : register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __(‘Footer Widget One’, ‘wpbs-framework’), ‘id’ => ‘footer-01’, ‘class’ => ‘testing’, ‘description’ => __(‘The first footer … Read more