Could the is_active_widget function dynamically check each widget added to the sidebar if they have content and return true if any of them have? No, it couldn’t. You could check if any widgets have saved data on them, but whether a widget has saved data is not a good indication of whether or not it … Read more
WooCommerce allows you to replicate/replace it’s template files by using the exact same file name and placing them in your theme directory using the same path structure they have. So in your theme directory, you add a folder called woocommerce and then within that, you place folder and template files the same way they have … Read more
This way of working with widgets is outdated and I should be using Gutenberg blocks. Moral of the story, be careful when buying courses from Udemy, they may just be useless.
What you are looking for is a bit involved but I wrote it anyway. Unfortunately it took longer than I planned so I’ve run out of gas on going in depth to explain it but I did document the code so hopefully that will help you follow it and you can download a copy of … Read more
The signature of newer function is different: register_sidebar_widget( $name,$output_callback, $classname ); wp_register_sidebar_widget( $id, $name,$output_callback, $options ); Can’t simply replace one function with another here, need to re-order arguments accordingly.
Thirty Ten is a child theme of Twenty Ten and could be excellent for you as it comes with 3 columns as you want.
I think what you might need is simply to run register_sidebar() in an ‘widgets_init’ hook. The TwentyTen theme has examples for register_sidebar() in its functions.php file, but here’s what it might look like: add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘twentyten_widgets_init’ ); function twentyten_widgets_init() { register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __( ‘News Sidebar’, ‘yoursite’ ), ‘id’ => ‘sidebar-news’, ‘description’ => __( … Read more
There are 2 ways to allow separate styles on each widget. The first is to add separate classes to the widgets like this: First Method register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>’sidebar1’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<ul class=”black-bg”><li>’, ‘after_widget’ => “</li></ul>”, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”widgettitle”>’, ‘after_title’ => “</h2>” )); You can then use the .back-bg class to style the widget like this: #sidebar … Read more
‘after_widget’ => ”, As far as I know, thats the best way to do it
Try to edit your style.css in the following way: Find this: #secondary And edit it in this way: #secondary { float: left; margin: 28px; width: 22.8%; } And then find this: #primary And edit it in this way: #primary { float: right; margin: 0 -55px; width: 80%; } By doing this, your sidebar will move … Read more