accessing sidebar 0?

The theme defines what the sidebars are named. If it doesn’t give a specific name, WordPress names them Sidebar 1, Sidebar 2, Sidebar 3, and so on.

There is no sidebar zero unless the theme defines one explicitly.

thanks – my theme (blacksplat) does have references to Sidebar 0 – looking at sidebar.php it appears to be static – no call like

<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar0’) ) : ?>

but those calls do exist for sidebar 1 and 2

am I correct when I say that only dynamic sidebars show up in the Design | Widgets screen drop-down selector?

In the theme’s functions.php file, it will define what sidebars that theme has by calling register_sidebar or register_sidebars. That’s where the sidebar names get defined.

The dynamic_sidebar('whatever'); displays those sidebars by name.

thank you again. I converted sidebar0 to a dynamic sidebar, registered it in functions.php, then had to do a little widget reorganizing, but all is as I wanted it now.