Title: Help needed with sidebar code
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help needed with sidebar code

 *  Resolved [Marva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marva/)
 * (@marva)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-sidebar-code/)
 * Hi i’m a bit puzzled why the sidebar code isn’t working properly.
    Althou I have
   little php experience, i can see the logic in the code but i fail to see where
   something is missing.
 * It was working fine, but when i removed a script i must have done something wrong
   because ever since the sidebars are missing on my site.
 * here is the crippled sidebar.php code :
    ————————————————-
 *     ```
       <div id="sidebar">
       <div class="side1">
       <ul>
       <?php jh_ShowAbout(); ?>
   
         <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>
         <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Live Charts</h2>' ); ?>
       	  <li class="blockr">
   
         <?php endif; // end 1 Dynamic Sidebar  ?>
       </li>
       </div>
       </div>
       </div> <!-- end left -->
       <div id="right">
         <div class="side2">
           <ul>
       	  <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else : ?>
       	  	<li class="blockr"><h2>Search on This Blog</h2>
       				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
       		</li>
             <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if (is_home()) { ?>
             <?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>
             <?php } ?>
       	  <li class="blockr">
              <h2>Archives</h2>
               <ul>
                 <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
               </ul>
             </li>
             <?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>
   
                   <h2>World Market Watch</h2>
               <ul>
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       	</ul>
   
       	   <h2>Recent Hits</h2>
               <ul>
                <script type="text/javascript" src="http://feedjit.com/map/?bc=e8f5f6&amp;tc=714e4e&amp;brd1=336699&amp;lnk=e8f5f6&amp;hc=318be4&amp;dot=5757e2"></script><noscript><a href="http://feedjit.com/">Feedjit Live Blog Stats</a></noscript>
               </ul>
         </div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * ————————————————–
    any help would ne greatly appreciated.
 * kind regards, Marva.

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 *  [Chrisber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisber/)
 * (@chrisber)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-sidebar-code/#post-840795)
 * Is it possible that when you removed a script that you also removed the get_sidebar
   command?
 * Without a link to your site it’s not really possible to figure out the problem.
 *  [tech_coach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tech_coach/)
 * (@tech_coach)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-sidebar-code/#post-840802)
 * hi,
 * I looked at your code and noticed
 * 1) you are missing a `</ul>` on the 3rd last line, to close the following.
    <
   div id=”right”> <div class=”side2″> `<ul>`
 * 2) I noticed that you have two div’s here one for “sidebar” and the other for“
   right”. So when <div id=”sidebar”> ends, <div id=”right”> begins. Is that what
   you wanted?
 *  Thread Starter [Marva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marva/)
 * (@marva)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-sidebar-code/#post-840808)
 * Hi Chris and tech_coach,
    in truth anything is possible… i could have removed
   the get_sidebar command… my website = [http://www.cfdtrend.com](http://www.cfdtrend.com)
 * the sidebar had a referrence to a top100 list which i placed and later removed.
 * after removal of the script things went from bad to worse.
    i don’t really remember
   what i altered , thinking it was this or that…
 * i don’t know php but had noticed the <div>
    was followed with </div> and so on.
 * I have added a in the third last line but had no succes.
 * As to the complexity of the calls that are being made in the
    code i have no 
   idea
 * it’s code from a template i liked ( one that had 3 collums i wanted )
    it’s called
   anubis.
 *  Thread Starter [Marva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marva/)
 * (@marva)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-sidebar-code/#post-840812)
 * After updating the theme the problem was solved!
 * Thanks for your swift responce.
 * Marva
 * fyi this is the working code from the theme :
 *     ```
       <div id="sidebar">
       <div class="side1">
       <ul>
   
       <?php jh_ShowAbout(); ?>
   
         <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>
         <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>' ); ?>
       	  <li class="blockr">
               <h2>Archives</h2>
               <ul>
                 <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
               </ul>
             </li>
             <?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>
         <?php endif; // end 1 Dynamic Sidebar  ?>
       </li>
       </div>
       </div>
       </div> <!-- end left -->
       <div id="right">
         <div class="side2">
           <ul>
       	  <?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else : ?>
       	  	<li class="blockr"><h2>Search on This Blog</h2>
       				<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
       		</li>
             <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if (is_home()) { ?>
             <?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>
             <?php } ?>
       	  <li class="blockr">
       	   <h2>Meta</h2>
               <ul>
                 <?php wp_register(); ?>
                 <li>
                   <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
                 </li>
                 <li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
                 <li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
       		  <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>
                 <?php wp_meta(); ?>
               </ul>
       		</li>
             <?php endif; // end 1 Dynamic Sidebar  ?>
       		</ul>
         </div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 *  [Chrisber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisber/)
 * (@chrisber)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-sidebar-code/#post-840815)
 * Whenever you mess something up beyond repair the easiest solution is to go back
   to a clean copy of the original theme and start over with an unmodified version
   of the template.

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 * Last reply from: [Chrisber](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrisber/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-with-sidebar-code/#post-840815)
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