Title: Calling them Sidebars
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Calling them Sidebars

 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-them-sidebars/)
 * Hi,
 * I really like the look of this plugin, but the one issue I have is that they’re
   called ‘Sidebars’. While I guess that’s what they’re technically called, none
   of my less technical users are going to associate ‘Header Right’ with a ‘Sidebar’.
 * In my opinions ‘Select a Widget Area to Edit’ and ‘Select Widget Area’, would
   be more appropriate strings.
 * This might sound incredibly nitpicky, but I work with a lot of users are are 
   very very inexperienced with these sorts of things, and you’d be surprised by
   what confuses them sometimes.
 * Cheers,
    Jacob
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/sane-widget-sidebar-management/)

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 *  [designerken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kcharity/)
 * (@kcharity)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-them-sidebars/#post-4010870)
 * Hey Jacob,
 * I think you might be interpreting the plug-in wrong.
    It doesn’t change the name
   of the “widget areas” (ie. Header Right, Primary Sidebar, Footer Widget, etc.).
 * Then name is defined in the theme or your functions file.
 * This merely creates the dropdown so the end user can select quickly the area 
   they want to add a new widget to. Mostly for those sites that have tons of sidebars
   for different pages or areas. The main graphic might be a bit deceiving.
 *  Thread Starter [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-them-sidebars/#post-4010871)
 * Nah I’m not making that mistake, I’m literally just referring to the labels for
   the dropdown.
 * Like I said, _super_ nitpicky.
 *  [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-them-sidebars/#post-4010875)
 * Regardless, it’s good feedback for the plugin, and I’ve filed an issue on GitHub
   for its consideration.
 * [https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management](https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management)
 *  [Michael Beckwith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tw2113/)
 * (@tw2113)
 * The BenchPresser
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/calling-them-sidebars/#post-4011002)
 * JakePT and kcharity,
 * [https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management/issues/4](https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management/issues/4)
 * [https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management/commit/3acec4ab89e9374cad8bf7116b8b2cdf35f46928](https://github.com/WebDevStudios/Sane-Widget-Sidebar-Management/commit/3acec4ab89e9374cad8bf7116b8b2cdf35f46928)
 * Feel free to pull a version from GitHub, and all changes done there will eventually
   be pushed to .org here as well.

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