Custom sidebar

<?php get_sidebar('custom'); ?>

You are registering it, you are having a page that gets called… but your not calling it.

Unless you just forgot to add that part.

Sorry forgot to mention the inclusion of <?php get_sidebar('custom'); ?>

Your ‘register_sidebar(‘sidebar-custom’)’ should probably just be register_sidebar(‘custom’)

I’m haivng a similar issue…

Frumph, my sidebar pages are named like adelpha’s. I have some pages with like names (gallery, etc.) so I named the sidebar pages “sidebar-gallery” just to differentiate.

My issue is, the various sidebars are showing up in the widget page and I’m populating them with different widgets, but no matter what I put in, they all have the same widgets.

function.php:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar_default',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2>',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));
	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar_gallery',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2>',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));
	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar_about',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2>',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));
}

sidebar_default:

<?php 	/* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
					if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_default') ) : ?>

page.php:

<?php get_sidebar('sidebar_default'); ?>

sidebar_gallery & gallery.php have the same code with the names replaced accordingly (gallery.php being a custom template page).

No matter what widgets I add in to those sidebars, every one of them is a copy of sidebar_default.php.

What am I doing wrong here?!
Thanks in advance!

^ get_sidebar is where your problem is

when you put get_sidebar(‘name’) it checks your php files for sidebar-name.php The only reference for that name => in your register sidebar should be a part of the dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar_about’) part

for example.

In your theme you put get_sidebar(‘inblog’); it will then go and look for the file sidebar-inblog.php if it doesnt find it, it will revert to sidebar.php

Inside your sidebar.php file or sidebar-inblog you have the dynamic-sidebar(‘sidebar_inblog’) that you registered.

get_sidebar does *not* use the reference of the sidebar registered it uses the reference of which file to load.

Thanks, I think see what you’re saying. In function.php and the associated sidebar file (sidebar_custom.php) I use the full file name (sidebar_custom) but when calling it via the actual page I just use ‘custom’. Am I reading that correctly?

Does the separator matter? I mean, using sidebar-custom.php instead of sidebar_custom.php? Do I have a syntax error as well?

I believe it should be sidebar-custom.php, with the hyphen, not with _ underscore

also, you name the file sidebar-custom.php, that is the only time you use the full name sidebar-custom

in functions.php it’s just ‘name’=>’custom’,
when called in a template it’s just <?php get_sidebar ('custom'); ?>

I hope someone can help me as I’ve been stuck on this for 2 days…

I want a sidebar on the left, my content in the middle and another sidebar on the right (3 column layout). No matter what I do my theme doesn’t recognise my custom sidebar files and only ever display the code from sidebar.php. If I remove sidebar.php from my custom theme then it reverts to using the sidebar.php file in the default theme folder.

Below is a list of my files and code used in them:

I have one file called sidebar-left.php and another called sidebar-right.php

In my theme’s index.php file I have the following code:

<?php get_sidebar('$left'); ?>
<?php get_sidebar('$right'); ?>

in my functions.php file I have this code:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {

	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar-left',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2>',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));

	register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar-right',
		'before_widget' => '<li>',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2>',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));
}

Both of my sidebars are showing in my WP Admin Panel and I can add widgets to them, but neither of them will display in on my page.

Really hoping someone can provide assistance with this. Thanks in advance.

get_sidebar(‘$left’);

will try to find the file sidebar-$left.php

get rid of the $ first, fix the name of the file.

i.e. get_sidebar(‘left’); so the file it looks for is sidebar-left.php

<?php dynamic-sidebar(‘sidebar-right’); ?>

will display that sidebar where you want it to in your page