Adding Sidebar Textbox to Widget Page

  • Resolved jamCincinnati

    (@jamcincinnati)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    The site I am customizing has only one sidebar and that contains blog information. After a lot of searching I found out how to ‘register’ a new sidebar and have it appear on the widget page. Then, using a widget, text can be added without having to fool around with HTML.

    The problem is that I need two extra sidebars (for a total of 3) and I only get one, the last one registered.

    Here is the code:

    register_sidebar(array(
   'name' => 'Sidebar Email',
   'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   'after_widget' => '</div>',
   'before_title' => '<h2 class="sidebartitle2">',
   'after_title' => '</h2>'
   ));

   register_sidebar(array(
   'name' => 'Sidebar Standard',
   'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   'after_widget' => '</div>',
   'before_title' => '<h2 class="sidebartitle2">',
   'after_title' => '</h2>'
   ));

    My test site is at http://www.mydesignbook.net/artist_site.

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  • anonymized-13749270

    (@anonymized-13749270)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Don’t forget to include the ID in the array:

    function mdb_register_sidebar() {
register_sidebar(array(
   'name' => 'Sidebar Email',
   'id' => 'sidebar-email',
   'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   'after_widget' => '</div>',
   'before_title' => '<h2 class="sidebartitle2">',
   'after_title' => '</h2>'
   ));

   register_sidebar(array(
   'name' => 'Sidebar Standard',
   'id' => 'sidebar-standard',
   'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
   'after_widget' => '</div>',
   'before_title' => '<h2 class="sidebartitle2">',
   'after_title' => '</h2>'
   ));
}

    and to call the dynamic sidebars place like below-codes in your template:

    <?php dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-email');?>
<?php dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-standard');?>

    I hope it works.

    Thread Starter jamCincinnati

    (@jamcincinnati)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Samuel Elh, thanks for the tip!

    The article I got the code from says nothing about including the “id”. But when I included it in the functions file, three sidebars show up on the widget page ready to be filled with content.

    anonymized-13749270

    (@anonymized-13749270)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Umm. I understand it worked, right ?

    You’re welcome 🙂

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