Sounds like $my_theme_option has no ‘custom_sidebars’ index, if you’ve remove it, it does not exist anymore. just add a if isset() around it, just like you did at around the for loop Also you don’t need to check for functions like register_sidebar to exist if they are older then 2 years. EDIT: DONT USE GLOBALS! … Read more
Script in sidebar blocks other widget’s load
This appears to be a mistake by the theme developer. They forgot the proper grid classes on the html. Open archive.php in the themes folder or in the editor and change line 13 From this: <section id=”primary” class=”content-area”> To this: <section id=”primary” class=”content-area col-9-12″>
In my opinion, you should use wp-query. Using a sidebar for this purpose will yield problems in the long term. SEO: Sidebars are taken as “aside” content, which is considered less relevant content by search engines. Editor: The editors for the sidebars are much worse than post editors. Reliability: Any change to containers added in … Read more
The customiser should not make a real difference in you decision as widgets are customized from the customizer as well. In general widget areas (sidebars) should be used whenever the user has the option to put any kind of content in it. If the content has to be very specific you should start looking into … Read more
Handling dozens of sidebars
I would probably build this as a theme_mod in the customizer. You could add a setting for each widget area in the Colors panel.
You can use the function is_active_widget . E.g.: function check_widget() { if( is_active_widget( ”, ”, ‘search’ ) ) { // check if search widget is used wp_enqueue_script(‘my-script’); } } add_action( ‘init’, ‘check_widget’ ); To load the script in the page where the widget is loaded only, you will have to add the is_active_widget() code, in … Read more
I added after get_header(); ?> <aside id=”secondary” class=”left-sidebar widget-area” role=”complementary”> <?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘sleft’ ); ?> </aside><!– .sidebar .widget-area –> Then aside#secondary { width: 20%; float: left; margin-right: 15px; } Now… if you’re going to have both sidebars, you’ll have to adjust the @media screen and (min-width: 61.5625em) body:not(.search-results) article:not(.type-page) .entry-content { float: left; width: 50%; … Read more
You mean like this: if (is_active_sidebar($sidebar-name) && is_page($page-id)) {do your thing} ?