If you fill class parameter to register_sidebar function then the class sidebar-{class name} gets added to the div of that sidebar in the back end. For example if you register the sidebar using following code : register_sidebar( array( ‘name’ => __(‘Footer Widget One’, ‘wpbs-framework’), ‘id’ => ‘footer-01’, ‘class’ => ‘testing’, ‘description’ => __(‘The first footer … Read more
After doing some research this answer became a bit longer than expected, but this is the essence: TL;DR: Menu placement and Widget placement/order is saved on a Theme basis and can therefore be restored when switching Themes. This does not include the individual settings of Menus and Widgets, so if you change them these changes … Read more
It should be possible to use the after_setup_theme hook to unregister the sidebar you don’t want like this: function go_away_extra_sidebar(){ unregister_sidebar( ‘Footer’ ); } add_action( ‘after_setup_theme’, ‘go_away_extra_sidebar’ ); Happy Coding, Kuchenundkakao
Seems the answer was a lot simpler than I thought, so I thought I’d share the answer for those who stumble across this problem too. Clearly I was missing something in the database that was need, so I too an SQL dump of the database before and after dragging in a widget. Then compared the … Read more
Once the widgets are being evaluated, the head of your site is completed, so you cannot use wp_head anymore. Adding <style> tags is an option, but will indeed generate a warning from the validator. Using the customizer is possibly confusing, because it is supposed to be about theme looks in general, not about specific widgets. … Read more
The customizer needs the sidebar to be “displayed” in order to detect its existence on the page. In your code you display the sidebar only if it is “active” which means that it has at least one widget in it, otherwise when no widgets are included it is not displayed and therefore the customizer can … Read more
Problem solved by this code below: <?php if (is_active_sidebar(‘extra_widget_1’)) { ?> <li> <?php dynamic_sidebar(‘extra_widget_1’); ?> </li> <?php } ?>
More than likely this is an issue with the register_sidebar() call in functions.php. Look for before_widget and after_widget. The code below is the default usage. ‘before_widget’ => ‘<li id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</li>’, Note: This will alter all of the widgets within the sidebar, not just the TextWidget.
$this is the widget object, an instance of the relevant widget class. It includes things like the widget ID and class identifiers which are required for the method that generate the input id and name attribute in the snippet $instance is the array which includes the widget setting. The settings ae not stored as part … Read more
In short: It depends. Widget go into a widget area. But that also means that when you create a widget area any widget can be put there as well as any number of widgets. So if you’d make the logo a widget a user could put twenty different widgets in that spot, including stuff that … Read more