Widgetizing Theme Help

I’ve created the functions.php and sidebar.php. I have the “Sidebar Widget” tab, only the site doesn’t show the new widget sidebar. It shows the old one.

did you put the widget code into your sidebar.php file?

I have this code in my sidebar.php file:

<div id=”sidebar”>
<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<div class=”title”>About</div>
<p>This is my blog.</p>
<div class=”title”>Links</div>

<?php endif; ?>
</div>

I have this code in my functions.php:

<?php
if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
register_sidebar();
?>

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

This looks off to me. It’s saying “if the function of dynamic sidebar doesn’t exist, then don’t show the dynamic sidebar” – which is correct, really. However, it’s not telling your site what to do if the function *does* exist.

<div id="sidebar">
<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>
place in the code for all the stuff that should show up if your widget sidebar *didn't* exist
<?php endif; ?>

Give that a shot and see if it helps.

That didn’t work either. There does need to be a </div> on the end of that, right? Is there another function or code somewhere that I’m missing? I was told this should be fairly simple, relatively that is. Any other suggestions? By the way, thanks for the help so far.

Yeah, there should.

Have you tried downloading a fresh copy? it could be that the one you have is corrupted. It truly is easy to set widgets up – and it sounds like you’ve done everything you’re supposed to do. The only other thing I could think of is that maybe you got a corrupted download by accident.

I emailed Otto from here and he got back to me. He informed me that I didn’t need a sidebar.php because the sidebar info was in the header.php. So I needed to change the header.php. Here is what he had me change: (the functions.php was already ok)

Next, I see that there’s no sidebar.php file. Looking around, I find
the sidebar actually in header.php for some odd reason. Weird, but it
doesn’t matter. We’ll just edit the sidebar there. You’ll open
header.php and do the following:

Change this code:
<!– S T A R T N A V B A R –>
<div id=”right”>
<div id=”righttop”></div>
<div id=”rightcontent”>

<!– START SEARCH –>

Into this:

<!– S T A R T N A V B A R –>
<div id=”right”>
<div id=”righttop”></div>
<div id=”rightcontent”>

<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’)
|| !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
<!– START SEARCH –>

Then find this code:
<!– END META –>

And change it to this:
<!– END META –>
<?php endif; ?>

good – glad you got it sorted!