There are no recommended sidebar widths, however there are LOTS of plugins that make assumptions about this (especially those that handle advertisements). If you plan on running ads, please check the ad width requirements and use that as your baseline. For example, if you are running AdSense ads and the ad requires 300px, then make … Read more
uploading a fresh version of widgets.php which widgets.php? I guess you updated wp-admin/includes/widgets.php? you actually need to update wp-includes/widgets.php where dynamic_sidebar function defined in.
Add a custom taxonomy if you don’t need to store much additional information. It’s the easiest way to get a set of labels that you can assign to page. Here’s the basic method for using a custom taxonomy based on this codex page: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_taxonomy add_action( ‘init’, ‘create_clinic_tax’ ); function create_clinic_tax() { register_taxonomy( ‘clinic’, ‘page’, // … Read more
There are two sidebars Main and Showcase in the theme. To make it showing on a page, go to this page and select appropriate page template in the page attributes meta box. Then sidebars will appear on your page.
I think, you’re mistaken in how if works…? $post_meta = get_post_meta( $GLOBALS[‘wp_query’]->post->ID, ‘TourURL’, true ); if (! empty($post_meta)) echo ‘<p>Show Link</p>’; else echo ‘<p>No Link</p>’; This should do what you want – if I understood you correctly. // UPDATED
There are several things you could do to achieve what you want. You could: create a new gallery with just the landscape images and include this new gallery into the sidebar; try different thumbnail settings in the NGG options (ignore aspect ratio or not, set height and width to the same value and thus show … Read more
You could either read the role of the current user, then show the desired sidebar elements, or (what I’d prefer) check for certain capabilities. User Role global $current_user; $roles = $current_user->roles; $role = array_shift( $roles ); switch ( $role ) { case … } Capabilities if ( current_user_can( SOME_CAP ) ) { } elseif ( … Read more
Yes, you can separate your code and markup into multiple files. Be aware of scope issues when you use include, but done carefully it should be no problem. Since you are in WordPress and building a theme, I would suggest get_template_part over a raw include. In many ways, “chopping” up your theme files is what … Read more
There is a body_class set for the home page called full-width-content. That suggests to me that: The homepage intentionally does not have a sidebar. You will need to edit the template appropriate template file to change that. That should be index.php, home.php, or front-page.php. or there is a dynamic sidebar for that page but you … Read more
The default widgets do not offer any hooks for that. You have to replace the default widget and add your field to the new class. The other option would be using JavaScript to insert the field, and a filter for ‘update_option_widget_’ . $widget->id_base to save the value. I think the separate class is the cleaner … Read more