register-sidebar

Your code works when I test it. I can only assume that the registration code is being hooked into the system too early or too late. register_sidebar() should be hooked on widgets_init per the Codex. Therefore: function register_header_sidebar_wpse_190618() { register_sidebar( array( ‘id’ => ‘header-sidebar’, ‘name’ => ‘Header’, ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div class=”widget”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ … Read more

You have three options: Register a dynamic sidebar for a specific page, and then create a page template that calls dynamic_sidebar() for the registered sidebar. Use an is_page( $id ) conditional wrapper in your page.php template Output Widget code conditionally, using is_page( $id ) Custom Page Template The first option would include your register_sidebar() call … Read more

It seems like, you haven’t provide any id to your sidebar which cause problem to generate unique id for each sidebar from above code. So, will you replace your code with these lines. Hope, this will hep to figure our your problem. You can found a good solution for similar to your problem. (updated) public … Read more

Try this in your functions.php function your_widget(){ register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => ‘Footer Column 2’, ‘id’ => ‘footer-column-2’, // I also added the ID but doesn’t work ‘before_widget’ => ‘<div id=”%1$s” class=”omc-footer-widget %2$s”>’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’, ‘before_title’ => ‘<h4>’, ‘after_title’ => ‘</h4>’ )); } add_action( ‘widgets_init’, ‘your_widget’ ); Call in footer.php with the ID. <?php if ( … Read more

The sidebar ID is used to uniquely identify this specific sidebar. If you don’t set it and something creates another, you could find that your sidebar moves somewhere unexpected! It doesn’t need to be numeric – you can use strings, too.