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Custom sidebar not showing in the dashboard

Register sidebar. add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpse_123456_widgets_init’ ); function wpse_123456_widgets_init() { $args = array( ‘name’ => __( ‘Sidebar name’, ‘theme_text_domain’ ), ‘id’ => ‘unique-sidebar-id’, ‘description’ => ”, ‘class’ => ”, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</li>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h2 class=”widgettitle”>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’ ); if ( function_exists (‘register_sidebar’)) { register_sidebar( $args ); } } … Read more

Display sidebar that created in functions.php

Here’s the way i would code it. Tested Add to functions file add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpsites_add_widget’ ); function wpsites_add_widget() { register_sidebar(array( ‘name’=>’Sidebar-Aries’, ‘id’ => ‘sidebar-aries’, ‘description’ =>’Display all the contents of sidebar at Aries page.’, ‘before_widget’ => ”, ‘after_widget’ => ”, ‘before_title’ => ”, ‘after_title’ => ”, )); } Or you could use this code in … Read more

Get a sidebar at the top of the page

This method works from your child themes functions.php file. Change the hook to a different position: //functions.php function wpsites_register_widget() { register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => ‘After Header Widget’, ‘id’ => ‘after-header’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ) ); } add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘wpsites_register_widget’ ); add_filter( ‘loop_start’, ‘after_header_widget’, 25 ); function after_header_widget() { if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘after-header’ … Read more

Is there possibility to Customize the present theme adding sidebars

Generally you can change the width from style.css file, which is located in the themes directory ( use firebug to determine the element ). For adding sidebars… use this tutorial.

WordPress twenty eleven sidebar on Pages

Funny you should ask, I’ve just posted an How to tutorial on how to add a sidebar on posts and pages in Twenty Eleven

How the WordPress sidebar works

The two functions at your disposal are register_sidebar and dynamic_sidebar – despite the name, they don’t need to have anything to do with a “sidebar” in the traditional sense. As for the term “widget”, this is nothing more than a chunk of code that takes some settings and outputs some content. A user can assign … Read more

Dynamically Register Sidebars For Each Top Level Page

try this code for creating unique sidebar for each parent page you can use $page->post_name(page slug) or $page->ID(page id) as sidebar id if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) ){ /*extract all parent pages */ $topLevel = get_pages(array( ‘sort_column’ => ‘post_date’, ‘hierarchical’ => 0, ‘parent’ => 0 )); foreach($topLevel as $page){ /* register sidebar for each parent page */ … Read more

Accessing Media/Files outside the_content

Try the following code: $args = array( ‘post_type’ => ‘attachment’, ‘numberposts’ => -1, ‘post_status’ => null, ‘post_parent’ => $post->ID ); $attachments = get_posts( $args ); if ($attachments) { foreach ( $attachments as $attachment) { setup_postdata($attachment); the_title(); the_attachment_link($attachment->ID, false); the_excerpt(); } }

Is there a way to allow only certain type of widgets in the sidebars?

It is possible to hook to sidebars_widgets and find which widget is in which sidebar. function dump_sidebar($a) { echo ‘<pre>’.var_export($a,true).'</pre>’; } add_action( ‘sidebars_widgets’, ‘dump_sidebar’); By checking that array you could eliminate particular widgets. function limit_sidebar_wpse_101279($sidebars_widgets) { if (!empty($sidebars_widgets[‘sidebar-1’])) { foreach ($sidebars_widgets[‘sidebar-1’] as $k =>$v) { if (‘pages’ == substr($v,0,5)) { unset($sidebars_widgets[‘sidebar-1’][$k]); } } } return … Read more

Text snippets shared across posts

It sounds like you do want a custom post type, you just want to set the public argument to false. The register_post_type() has lots of arguments that will let you do everything you probably want. Along with public, you’ll probably set has_archive to false. Setting show_ui to true will allow you to manage the posts … Read more

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