This question has been answered many times already on this site. There’s 2 simple steps: One: Add to functions file register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Your Sidebar’ ), ‘id’ => ‘wpsites-sidebar’, ‘description’ => __( ‘Your Sidebar Description.’ ), ‘before_title’ => ‘<h1>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h1>’, ) ); Two: Add where you want to output sidebar <?php … Read more
How to unregister sidebar for template_part?
Remove: ‘no_found_rows’ => true, from your WP_Query call inside the widget code. Additionally I would suggest to make this change : ‘base’ => add_query_arg( ‘latest_page’, ‘%#%’ ), in your paginate_links call, because add_query_arg() will handle if ? or & is used. This should make the pagination work in your widget. Note: I’m almost, haven’t tested … Read more
Replace this line dynamic_sidebar(‘Footer Widget $sidebarnum’); with this dynamic_sidebar(‘Footer Widget ‘ . $sidebarnum);
echo widget contents
How to exclude sidebar from pages?
You may be able to use get_archives_link with same parameters as wp_get_archives and either use the output from that to determine if there are no posts or there is a filter in get_archives_link called get_archives_link that gives you access to the HTML. Source: http://wpseek.com/function/get_archives_link/
You could try something like this, within your sidebar.php file: if ( ! is_active_sidebar (‘SIDEBAR-NAME-OR-ID’ ) ) { echo ‘<style>.main-content { width: 960px; }</style>’; } This is hackish, but it should work for what you’re trying to do. There may be a better method but its hard to know without more context. The above code … Read more
wordpress did not like the file extension. use substring to remove file extension and then add it back in later.
You can write the logic inside widget functions. When the widget is added in sidebar, it will check for sidebar name and home page. global $wp_registered_widgets, $wp_registered_sidebars; $sidebars_widgets = get_option(‘sidebars_widgets’); if($sidebars_widgets[“sidebar-1”] && is_home()) { //Write your logic here }