Adding widget areas

  • I’m trying to add a widget area to my theme, but it doesn’t seem to be working. I’ve added widget areas to wordpress themes many many times before and I’ve never had a problem with them… I have no idea why it’s not working this time, here is the code I’m using..

    functions.php

    <?php
if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {

	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'navbar',
		'description'   => '',
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget'  => '',
		'before_title'  => '',
		'after_title'   => ''
	));

?>

    header.php

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

    side note: I dont get a php error or anything, nothing happens.

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  • Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    You’re missing your closing curly brace in the function:

    <?php
if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {

	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'navbar',
		'description'   => '',
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget'  => '',
		'before_title'  => '',
		'after_title'   => ''
	));

?>
    Thread Starter bluedrag

    (@bluedrag)

    Hmm.. it still doesn’t seem to be working. Is this what you meant?

    <?php
if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {

	register_sidebar(array(
		'name' => 'navbar',
		'description'   => '',
		'before_widget' => '',
		'after_widget'  => '',
		'before_title'  => '',
		'after_title'   => ''
	));
}

?>
    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Why don’t you paste the entire contents of functions.php into a Pastebin.

    Moderator Kathryn Presner

    (@zoonini)

    Actually, never mind – I think it’s something else. Do you have a line in header.php actually calling in the widget?

    <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'navbar' ); ?>

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