Menus and Widgets errors

Are you trying to create a new custom widget area?

The site already has a custom widget area and custom menu. When I add pages to the menu or when I try to add something like an RSS to the widget, the loading icon (that little spinning circle thing, for lack of better words) just loads and loads forever and the item is never added.

What kind of function are you using to get the ‘custom widget area’ or dynamic sidebar? Are you using something like this:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
      register_sidebar(array(
          'before_widget' => '',
          'after_widget' => '',
          'before_title' => '',
          'after_title' => '<div class="clear"></div>',
          'name' => 'sidebar'
      ));

To register it, than this to call it in your sidebar.php file?

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
          || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar') ) : ?>
          <!-- default content -->
   <?php endif; ?>

This is what I’m using

// Register widgetized areas
function theme_widgets_init() {
    // Area 1
    register_sidebar( array (
    'name' => 'Primary Widget Area',
    'id' => 'primary_widget_area',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => "</li>",
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
  ) );

    // Area 2
    register_sidebar( array (
    'name' => 'Secondary Widget Area',
    'id' => 'secondary_widget_area',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',
    'after_widget' => "</li>",
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
  ) );

  register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Footer Area One' ),
		'id' => 'sidebar-3',
		'description' => __( 'An optional widget area for your site footer' ),
		'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => "</aside>",
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
	) );

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Footer Area Two' ),
		'id' => 'sidebar-4',
		'description' => __( 'An optional widget area for your site footer' ),
		'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => "</aside>",
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
	) );

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Footer Area Three' ),
		'id' => 'sidebar-5',
		'description' => __( 'An optional widget area for your site footer' ),
		'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => "</aside>",
		'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
		'after_title' => '</h3>',
	) );

} // end theme_widgets_init

add_action( 'init', 'theme_widgets_init' );

// precode the search, pages, categories, archives, links and meta widgets into the sidebars

$preset_widgets = array (
    'primary_widget_area'  => array( 'search', 'pages', 'categories', 'archives' ),
    'secondary_widget_area'  => array( 'links', 'meta' )
);
if ( isset( $_GET['activated'] ) ) {
    update_option( 'sidebars_widgets', $preset_widgets );
}

Your code looks pretty solid, perhaps if you just tried to register one sidebar and see if that works. If that works, just keep adding code until you see where you made a mistake. May be a bit time consuming, but I think you will find where the problem is lying this way. Sorry I couldn’t be more help than this.

thanks. Moreso my menu is the bigger concern. Its the one thing really holding me up. Here it is.

* This theme uses wp_nav_menu() in one location.
*/
register_nav_menus( array(
‘primary’ => __( ‘Primary Menu’, ‘praisable’ ),
) );
`