How to troubleshoot Sidebar not being generated
Your get_sidebar call: <?php get_sidebar; ?> is missing the parentheses: <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
register-sidebar
Sidebar widgets – dynamic CSS : problem with widget-title
Not a good solution… but is a solution: using jquery. register_sidebar( array ( ‘name’ => ‘Left Widget Area’, ‘id’ => ‘primary_widget_area’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”><div class=”widget-title”></div><div class=”widget-content”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div></li><!– .widget –>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<span class=”invisible-title” data-widget=”%1$s” style=”display:none;”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</span>’, ) ); and the JS jQuery().ready(function($) { $(‘.invisible-title’).each(function() { var title = … Read more
Is there a way to dump all registered sidebar/widget?
There is, in fact! The global variable $wp_registered_sidebars stores the registered sidebars, and $wp_registered_widgets stores all registered widgets (by widget ID).
Why the dynamic_sidebar() call is putted into an ul tag?
Traditionally, sidebars were implemented as lists. Each sidebar “box” is an LI, so the sidebar as a whole would need to be inside a UL tag. However, this is entirely a choice on the part of the theme author. The register_sidebar call can override the before_widget and after_widget parameters to be divs or anything else … Read more
widgets not working
Change this code add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘right_sidebar_widget’ ); with add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘right_sidebar_widget’ );
Sidebar only shows up on blog page
The error you are getting is because you must add the registered sidebar to widgets_init. add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpa199335_page_sidebar’ ); function wpa199335_page_sidebar(){ register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Page Sidebar’), ‘id’ => ‘page’, ‘description’ => __( ‘Displays on the side of pages with a sidebar’ ), ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”module-heading”>’, ‘after_title’ … Read more
Adding an extra sidebar to your theme
get_sidebar(‘left’); actually refers to a file, not the sidebar itself. Are you seeing the sidebar in the Admin section? Are you trying to display it on the front end? If the answer to both of these questions are “yes”, then here’s the solution: Create a file called sidebar-left.php. In this file, you will need to … Read more
How can i display custom menu in sidebar?
There are several plugins to achieve custom menus, So I like to use the plugin Sidebar Menu Widget, With this you can create a Menu on your WP Menu options, then assign the menu to the sidebar. I think this is the easier way to have a second menu on sidebars.
Register_Sidebar overwriting itself and doesn’t exist in global $wp_registered_sidebars;
The solution was simple and made me feel tremendously stupid. 90% of the issues I could find remotely similar to my issue were all issues relating to the casing. Throughout this whole process I overlooked the “_HOMEPAGE” and “_RIGHT_SIDEBAR” in my IDs. Those should be lowercase. id – Sidebar id – Must be all in … Read more
Save button is not working on custom widget
I have checked code of codeshare.io/2jJLDK and found the issue. Please follow below instructions for fix this issue. In the form function, you have used input type as “url” for Link and as per rule of input type “url”, it can’t take “#” so you must use actual url with http/https like https://www.google.com/ for saving/updating … Read more