Remove Whitespace from empty titles of widgets on sidebar

  • I added a second widgetized sidebar to a theme and I am trying to figure out how to remove the whitespace from a widget that doesn’t have a title. In the functions php I added this code:

    register_sidebar(
    array(
      'id' => 'left',
      'name' => __( 'left' ),
      'description' => __( 'Left Sidebar' ),
      'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
      'after_widget' => '</div>',
      'before_title' => '<h3>',
      'after_title' => '</h3>'
    )
  );

    and I because of the h3 tags it appears to be just trying to keep the space open for a title regardless of if there is one on the widget. If I place the title onto the widget it shows up and fills the whitespace. For this theme, I would like to have some sort of if statement in place that detects the presence of a title before proceeding to reserve that space so that the theme comes out clean.

    Does anyone have a clue on how to implement that? I have no idea where to start or what syntax would be needed.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Thread Starter theresalwaysaway

    (@theresalwaysaway)

    I am pretty sure I could put an if statement before this:

    'before_title' => '<h3>',
      'after_title' => '</h3>'

    My question is, is there something like this?

    if (widgetHasTitle)
{
'before_title' => '<h3>',
      'after_title' => '</h3>' }
else
 {'before_title' => '',
      'after_title' => ''}

    The API must have a solution right?

    was a solution ever found?

    Thread Starter theresalwaysaway

    (@theresalwaysaway)

    No, I haven’t found a solution. The best thing I can suggest is putting some information into the title of the widget at all times.

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