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Custom sidebar not showing in the dashboard

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

How the WordPress sidebar works

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

Plugin Sidebar is not Saving Meta Attribute to Post/Page after “Update”

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

Hooking Into Widget Output Loop

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

Registering Sidebars and Sidebar Widgets. Sidebar Widgets Not Displaying

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.

is_active_sidebar() not working

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

How to avoid widgets added to sidebar on theme activation?

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

What is the use case for the “Class” parameter in register_sidebar?

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

How to get the name and description of a sidebar in theme?

You can use the $wp_registered_sidebars global variable. Like this: global $wp_registered_sidebars; if( is_active_sidebar( ‘activity_calendar_en’ ) ): esc_html_e( $wp_registered_sidebars[‘activity_calendar_en’][‘name’] ); dynamic_sidebar( ‘activity_calendar_en’ ); endif; If you check the WordPress core for is_registered_sidebar function, you’ll see that it’s using this global variable too: function is_registered_sidebar( $sidebar_id ) { global $wp_registered_sidebars; return isset( $wp_registered_sidebars[ $sidebar_id ] ); } … Read more

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