Additional Sidebar

Your function seems fine and it’s probably hooked on init : add_action(‘init’,’blankslate_widgets_init’) function blankslate_widgets_init() { //code } But in your theme you probably want to add some checking : <?php if (is_active_sidebar(‘left-sidebar’)) dynamic_sidebar(‘left-sidebar’); ?> I would use left-sidebar instead left_sidebar as sidebar ID perhaps.

If no input don’t display?

<?php $bath=get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘wtf_bath’, true); if(!empty($bath) ) { ?> <div class=”propslist”><span>Băi – </span> <span class=”propval”> <?php echo $bath; ?></span></div> <?php } ?> Do something like this for each div !.. only display div if the data to be displayed in div is not empty !

Can’t change excerpt length and more tag

excerpt_length filter does not work on manually added filter so you use wp_trim_excerpt function, you can develop code same as following to achieve it. <?php if( has_excerpt() ){ the_excerpt(); } else { wp_trim_excerpt(); } ?> excerpt_more does not work on WordPress version 2.8.x and Older for those versions you have to use following filter. <?php … Read more

Changes doesn’t show up on blog

I believe Fishpig doesn’t use your theme’s functions.php file when in the “Fully Integrated” mode, it has a built-in theme that it forces WordPress to use. You will have to either modify the Fishpig source code and/or ask Fishpig support how you can do this without affecting future upgrades.