Left sidebar

I’m struggling with the same issue. Better Anchor Links is not working fully in the left sidebar, neither with the widget, the [mwm-aal-display] shortcode inside a text widget (which doesn’t appear to work at all, though maybe shortcodes generally don’t work in text widgets anyway, but I digress), and it doesn’t do anything when I hard-code the <?php global $mwm_aal; $mwm_aal->output_sidebar_links(); ?> line into my theme’s sidebar.php either (which isn’t ideal even if it did work, but again, I digress). I just want it to work!

Better Anchor Links is only fully working in the right sidebar of my theme, which comes after content.

In the left sidebar, which in my theme comes before the main content, it just outputs an empty <div class="mwm-aal-sidebar-container"> element.

I really don’t want to have to restructure the theme so that the left sidebar comes after the main content semantically, if I don’t have to. Although, semantically the sidebar should probably come after the content anyway.

Can you fix this issue in your plugin, if at all possible? Or is this issue a seriously lost cause?

I got this solved by placing the [mwm-aal-display] tag in the main content and using custom CSS to move it to the left sidebar.

<div class="balinksLeftfixed">
[mwm-aal-display]
</div>

Then in my custom CSS I made it fixed (or absolute) positioned. Don’t forget a media query to hide it if you are using responsive design.

.balinksLeftfixed{
	position:fixed;
	left:0;
	margin-left:10px;
}

@media all and (max-width: 767px) {
	div.balinksLeftfixed{
		display: none;
	}
}

Hi, what theme do you using? I tried default Twenty Fourteen and left sidebar works fine.