Advanced Sidebar Menu problem

Hello,

Can you confirm that the second page has the sideber which holds the widget?

@mat-lipe I’m having trouble with this plugin, and I just registered with www.remarpro.com so I can’t seem to create a new topic of my own. Sorry to hijack this one but I’m really stuck.

First off, I’m fairly new to WordPress. I’m planning to migrate a site from Joomla 3.4, and I’ve spent the last month building and rebuilding demo sites on my pc, so I’m really just scratching the surface and I may be way out of my league here. ??

I setup Advanced Sidebar Menu to show menus based on pages – and I even figured out how to hack the code to give the menu a dynamic title based on the top page. (Note that I literally only have 6 hours of php experience, so figuring out how to do that took me about two days lol, but anyway here’s the code for what I accomplished.)

The first line is your code from the src -> Advanced_Sidebar_Menu_List_Pages.php on line 172; the rest was how I got the title to display what I wanted:

$this->args = apply_filters( 'advanced_sidebar_menu_list_pages_args', $args, $this );
     ?><aside id="nav_menu-2" class="widget widget_nav_menu">
       <h3 class="widget-title"><?php 
        echo  get_the_title( $this->top_parent_id ) ; ?>
        </h3>

        <?php

So getting a dynamic title was pretty awesome – but unfortunately I have a problem which is there whether I take my code out, or leave it in.

I’m running BuddyPress 2.6.2, and on my Members page, Groups page, and all individual member pages and group pages, I get a dynamic list of every page on my site. I’ve tried excluding those pages by their ID, and I’ve also tried setting the widget to Hide if Page is Members, Groups, etc. There doesn’t seem to be any way to turn this off.

I’ve also tried to exclude other pages (the ones I actually want it to show on), and the widget does not exclude them, either. However, I can “Hide if Page is” on those other pages, just not on Members or Groups.

FWIW, I’m using WordPress 4.6 with the Customizr theme (although I tried a few other themes and had the same problem with all of them), and I have Advanced Sidebar Menu 6.1.0.

So I did a lot more reading, and if I understand correctly, it seems that BuddyPress renders their pages in a way that’s different from WordPress pages. I suspect that was one of the factors I ran into, though to be honest I don’t completely understand how it all works.

I definitely don’t really know what I’m doing, but I found the Dynamic Widgets plugin, and that prevented Advanced Sidebar Menu from loading on all BuddyPress pages except the member Profile pages, and the member Forum pages (don’t know why it wouldn’t recognize those two, but it didn’t.)

I did some more digging, and finally discovered that if I add:

 if (is_buddypress()) {
            exit;
        } 

to the top of the Advanced_Sidebar_Menu.php page in the “src” folder, then the plugin works perfectly on my WordPress pages, and doesn’t show at all on any BuddyPress pages (which is exactly what I wanted.)

It seems there’s also a method for disabling the sidebar completely in a BuddyPress child theme – and even a way to register a separate sidebar (in which, the Advanced Sidebar Menu plugin would do nothing, because it wouldn’t even be assigned to that specific sidebar).

I found a lot of forum topics that touched on that subject, but I cannot seem to find clear, step by step instructions on how to do this (which is not to say the instructions don’t exist – I simply and honestly don’t know where to look for them.)

Anyway, I found “a way” to accomplish what I wanted, but I have no idea if it’s the best way – or for that matter, if it’s even a “good” way.

Any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated.

My apologies, I gave incorrect information in my last post. Placing the code in Advanced_Sidebar_Menu.php actually does nothing; I had to put it in the List_Pages file (also in the “src” folder.)

So what I wound up with is this:

		// sanitize, mostly to keep spaces out
		if( is_string( $args[ 'exclude' ] ) ){
			$args[ 'exclude' ]  = explode( ',', $args[ 'exclude' ] );
		}
		$args[ 'exclude' ] = preg_replace( '/[^0-9,]/', '', implode( ',', apply_filters( 'wp_list_pages_excludes', $args[ 'exclude' ] ) ) );

// I added these lines:
       if ( is_buddypress()) {
            die;
        }

        
		if (( is_page() || is_singular())) {
			$this->current_page = get_queried_object();
			$this->current_page_id = $this->current_page->ID;
		}
        

		$this->args = apply_filters( 'advanced_sidebar_menu_list_pages_args', $args, $this );

// and these:
     ?><aside id="nav_menu-2" class="widget widget_nav_menu">
       <h3 class="widget-title"><?php 
        echo  get_the_title( $this->top_parent_id ) ; ?>
        </h3>

        <?php
    }

It seems to prevent the menu from loading, but it also hides the floating admin bar on the Profile pages and member Forums pages. But I plan on disabling the admin bar anyway, so hopefully that won’t be a problem when I take this site live. ??

Anyway, I’m sure that what I’ve done is not the “best” way to deal with this issue. If there is a better, or safer, method, I’d love to hear about it.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by themichaelglenn.

Hello Mat. Yes i can.