Adding a custom sidebar

  • Resolved geomouchet

    (@geomouchet)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    I trying to add a custom sidebar by following the instructions here. I added the following to my functions.php of my child theme:

    if ( function_exists ('register_sidebar')) {
    register_sidebar ('custom');
}

    Then I created a sidebar-custom.php

    <?php
/**
 * The custom sidebar.
 *
 * @package agua_dulce-first-child
 */
if ( ! is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-custom' ) ) {
	return;
}
?>

<div id="secondary" class="sidebar-area" role="complementary">
	<div class="widget-area">
		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-custom' ); ?>
	</div>
</div><!-- #secondary -->
?>

    The sidebar does not show in Appearance/Widgets

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  • Thread Starter geomouchet

    (@geomouchet)

    Apparently the instructions at that link are outdated or otherwise incorrect. I found another forum question that showed this as the correct way to add a custom sidebar:

    add_action( 'widgets_init', 'theme_agua_dulce_first_child_widgets_init' );
function theme_agua_dulce_first_child_widgets_init() {
    register_sidebar( array(
        'name' => __( 'Custom', 'theme-agua_dulce-first-child' ),
        'id' => 'sidebar-custom',
        'description' => __( 'Custom sidebar.', 'theme-slug' ),
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
	'after_widget'  => '</li>',
	'before_title'  => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
	'after_title'   => '</h2>',
    ) );
}

    After making that change it now works.

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