Sidebar won't display

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Anyone?

Are you using a page template – a modified page.php – for the news page and does it include the sidebar call? Liek single.php does?
Page Templates ? WordPress Codex

Hi,

Yes, I’m using a modified page.php and it does include a sidebar call… here’s the full code…

<?php /* Template Name: EBSNews */ ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”container”>
<?php if (!get_option(‘ttw_hide_widg_pages’) && is_active_sidebar(‘top-widget-area’)) { /* add top and bottom widget areas */ ?>
<div id=”ttw-top-widget” class=”widget-area” role=”complementary” ><ul class=”xoxo”>
<?php dynamic_sidebar(‘top-widget-area’); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>

<div id=”content”>

<?php the_post(); ?>

<div id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>” <?php post_class(); ?>>
<?php if ( is_front_page() ) { ?>
<h2 class=”entry-title”><!- -?php the_title(); ?- -></h2>
<?php } else { ?>
<h1 class=”entry-title”><!- -?php the_title(); ?- -></h1>
<?php } ?>

<div class=”entry-content”>
<?php the_content(); ?>
<?php wp_link_pages( array( ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”page-link”>’ . __( ‘Pages:’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘after’ => ‘</div>’ ) ); ?>
<?php edit_post_link( __( ‘Edit’, ‘twentyten’ ), ‘<span class=”edit-link”>’, ‘</span>’ ); ?>
</div><!– .entry-content –>
</div><!– #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> –>

</div><!– #content –>
<?php if (!get_option(‘ttw_hide_widg_pages’) && is_active_sidebar(‘bottom-widget-area’)) { /* add top and bottom widget areas */ ?>
<div id=”ttw-bot-widget” class=”widget-area” role=”complementary” ><ul class=”xoxo”>
<?php dynamic_sidebar(‘bottom-widget-area’); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</div><!– #container –>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Ok, i’ve switched the page template back to ‘Default’ and i’m getting the same result – custom sidebar won’t display on the top-level page but will on single posts…

Also noticed that the ‘archives’ page suffers from the same problem.

I’ve found a plugin that lets me add posts inline inside the page, but while a workaround, its not what I’m after.

I’m going slowly bald ripping my hair out over this.

…

Installed WP2.8.4 and tried the plugin on the default Kubrick theme… same result.

Updating the plugin causes it to break completely under WP3.0.

I don’t know what else to try.. the plugin just doesn’t want to work with static pages.

Maybe https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

Tried it, but it doesn’t quite meet my needs.

I think I’ve tracked down the problem though. In the plugin code there is a call to check if the page is a single page and if not, then don’t display the sidebar. Playing with it now to see if i can get it to work.

Hi

I’m having the exact same problem, did you manage to solve this or has anyone else come across this?

Have disabled plugins as I thought these might be conflicting, but to no avail. I don’t understand the coding too well so not sure what to look for there.

Help anyone!