adding widgets to sidebar.php disables page specific sidebars

I’m not sure where to start to look for the problem.

for instance in sidebar.php ?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar

I’ve read over and tried everything there and related, however I think the problem is related to the fact that I originally combined some of the twenty ten theme with another (Chocotheme).

This is what I have in the top of the sidebar.php and functions.php

<div id="sidebar">
	<ul>
		<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
			<li>
				<?php get_search_form(); ?>
			</li>

			<?php if ( is_404() || is_category() || is_day() || is_month() ||
						is_year() || is_search() || is_paged() ) {
			?> <li class="metaplace">

etc.

function rww_widgets_init() {
	// Default Sidebar.
register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'sidebar',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => '</li>',
    'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h2>',
));

	// Category Sidebar.
register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'sidebar-category-sidebar',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => '</li>',
    'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h2>',
));

	// Single Post Sidebar.
register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'sidebar-single',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => '</li>',
    'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h2>',
));
}
/** Register sidebars by running rww_widgets_init() on the widgets_init hook. */
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'rww_widgets_init' );

Not sure that helps.

in sidebar.php, everything from:

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

to the corresponding

<?php endif; ?>

will not get executed if any widgets are used.

I figured out the problems from this post and made the corrections.

Thanks for you suggestions.