Comments on: How to add a dynamic sidebar in Wordpress?

By: RJ Sherman

RJ Sherman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:21:01 +0000

When you are working in the new version of wordpress (2.8.1) you don’t do:

register_sidebar(1);
register_sidebar(2);
register_sidebar(3);

you do register_sidebars(3); instead and it knows to grab all three.

Good post – VERY helpful.

By: Swoosh Away! - A free wordpress theme | Angad Sodhi

Swoosh Away! - A free wordpress theme | Angad Sodhi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:53:52 +0000

[...] How to add a dynamic sidebar in Wordpress? [...]

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:18:55 +0000

With what you are describing to me, I am going to say that your template did not come with a dynamic sidebar. It have the codes without the number. I recommend you follow the tutorial and add your dynamic sidebars.

By: KV

KV — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:36:02 +0000

Thanks for the video. How ever my dynamic side bar doesn’t work. This is what I think is the problem. My template came with a dynamic side bar.(I have gone back to the orginal sidebar) However, when I go to the widgets page on Wordpress only one sidebar is shown. And none of the widgets currently on my sidebar are shown. When I try to add widgets it deletes the orginal dymanic sidebar and replaces it with one. This is why I started searching for codes to fix or replace my tool bar which isn’t working properly. Please help if you can. I would really like to be able to add more widgets to my sidebar. Thanks.

To help I have added the codes in my template

THEME FUNCTIONS

SIDE BARS

Welcome to the Working Divas Blog!

STYLE SHEET
/*——————– Sidebar ——————–*/

#sidebar { float: right; width: 290px; margin: 0; padding: 0; }

#sidebar h2 { display: block; margin: 16px 0 6px 0; padding: 0 0 10px 3px; font-size: 1.4em; list-style-type: none; color: #CC0000; }

#sidebar ul { clear: both; margin: 0; padding: 0 0 20px 0; list-style-type: none; }
#sidebar ul li { clear: both; }

#sidebar ul.no-splitted li { background: transparent url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat 5px 1px; padding: 0 0 0 23px; }
#sidebar ul.no-splitted li:hover { background: transparent url(images/bullet-blue.gif) no-repeat 5px 1px; padding: 0 0 0 23px; }
#sidebar ul.no-splitted li a:link, #sidebar ul.no-splitted li a:visited { color: #666; text-decoration: none; }
#sidebar ul.no-splitted li a:hover, #sidebar ul.no-splitted li a:active { color: #444; text-decoration: none; }

#sidebar ul.no-splitted ul li { margin: 0 -5px; }
#sidebar p, #sidebar form { margin: 0 5px; padding: 0 0 20px 0; }
#sidebar ul.blc { padding: 0 5px; }

#sidebar li#sidebar-splitted { float: left; width: 100%; margin: 0 0 15px 0; }
#sidebar-splitted .splitted-left { float: left; width: 140px; }
#sidebar-splitted .splitted-right { float: right; width: 145px; }

ul.splittedlists li { background: transparent url(images/bullet.gif) no-repeat 5px 1px; padding: 0 0 0 23px; }
ul.splittedlists li:hover { background: transparent url(images/bullet-blue.gif) no-repeat 5px 1px; padding: 0 0 0 23px; }
ul.splittedlists ul li { margin: 0 0 0 -23px; }

ul.splittedlists li a:link, ul.splittedlists li a:visited { color: #666; text-decoration: none; }
ul.splittedlists li a:hover, ul.splittedlists li a:active { color: #444; text-decoration: none; }

By: Abdel

Abdel — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:27:34 +0000

Thanks for the tip syed. I really like how you made it very straightforward. You saved my life and that of my actual theme cuz I was about to trash it.

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:45:11 +0000

You change the number of the sidebar. If you would like me to do it please use the contact form … you can hire me to do it for you.

By: Gionata

Gionata — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:37:43 +0000

Dear Balkhi again…
Sorry for commenting again, but i really would like you to help me with that php code.
What do i write in page.php to acquire the second sidebar?

Regards.

Gionata Nencini
http://www.Partireper.it

By: Gionata

Gionata — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:26:54 +0000

thanks for the reply.

may i ask what is the code you would put in the page.php template to display the second sidebar?

I’ve tried few different combination, but it shows always the first one…

Thanks a lot.

Gionata Nencini
http://www.Partireper.it

By: Syed Balkhi

Syed Balkhi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:21:23 +0000

Well in this case, you would have to place the sidebar code in the page rather than footer and modify the whole template. So basically what you will do is have the normal sidebar in the index.php, but when it is page.php insert the second sidebar …

By: Gionata

Gionata — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:49:18 +0000

Dear Balkhis.

The code works great with me, but let’s say i want to display sidebar (2) in a page template, as a replacement of sidebar(1)?

How do you write the php code in the page template?

????

Thanks a lot.

Gionata Nencini
http://www.Partireper.it