Sidebar Confusion

WordPress has conditional statements like ‘is_home’ (are we viewing the home page?) or is_single (are we viewing a single entry?). In most templates the sidebar is full of conditionals like this. I suspect you put your ‘home’ and ‘yahoo’ links under different conditionals.

I’m sorry, I should have included the link. I didn’t intentionally do anything like that. Here’s the link
https://www.fishing-trip-advisor.com/blog

Thanks for the link. It looks like that’s all your problem is so it’s easy to fix. Here’s the code in the default template’s sidebar.php
(I’ve shortened a few lines).


<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>

• <h2>Meta</h2>

<?php wp_register(); ?>
• <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
• ... validate link ...
• ... xfn link ...
• ... wordpress link ...

... Yahoo link ...
<?php wp_meta(); ?>

<?php } ?>

You see how the very first line says if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?. So that’s saying ‘if we’re viewing the home page or we’re viewing a ‘page’ (ie something you made under write->pages) then show this section. And the section goes from the ‘{‘ at the end of that line to the ‘}’ at the end. Since your Yahoo link is in that section, it will only show on the home page or a ‘page’ you made. It can be a little confusing but it also makes per page customization quite powerful.

Anyway, the short story? Just move your yahoo link after the last } and it will then show on any page.

The code got a little messed up there but it’s the last section in your sidebar.php file. Let me know if it’s still not clear.

Thanks for a great explanation. I’ll keep playing with it… I’m not doing something right. When I move the link after the last } I get a “Parse error: parse error, unexpected ‘<‘ ” error code. And nothing is showing up in the sidebar.

Thanks Ming. I got it, finally. I actually had to put the info after the “>” which followed the “}”.

I appreciate your help… don’t know how long it would have taken without it.

Dave

Glad you got it figured out, the page looks good.