Add a side bar to template

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@theplastickid:

Have you seen the following thread?
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/336824?replies=2

I have and I also have followed the tutorials but the structure in those tutorials is different in the Starker theme. Thats why I have posted a snippet of code above.

It seems I have solved my own problem I took the above if statement and repeated it. which generated two sidebars.

EDIT: didn’t see your last reply…

Ok. I hope the following will be of help….

First replace:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array(
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));

with:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'primary_sidebar',
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
));

Following which, declare a second sidebar:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'secondary_sidebar',
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
));

In your sidebar.php, replace

if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() : ?>

with

if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('primary_sidebar') ) : ?>

To add a second sidebar, add the following code to the desired location:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('secondary_sidebar') ) : else : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

I thought I’d had solved the problem but I hadn’t came back here and saw your response and my problem is now resoloved

Thank you very much geraldyeo, really appreciate it.

Dear geraldyeo,

I stumbled upon the exact same thing. So I was pretty happy to find this post. I’ve tried the above but somehow it’s not working, I get a totally blank page when I replace:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array(
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));

with

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'primary_sidebar',
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
));

in my functions.php. And yes, I also did replace:

if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() : ?>

with

if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('primary_sidebar') ) : ?>

I’ve tried it with just the primary sidebar as with both primary and secondary, both don’t work. Any help?

Best, Salli