[Plugin: Custom sidebars] Custom Sidebars: Oficial Topic

the “sidebar tool box” at screenshot 3, does not show in my installation. I have previous installed your plugin – and it worked. Now i want it back – but i need the tool box… Any ideas?

There are some reasons why the sidebars metabox is not showing in your admin area:

* You don’t have permission to see the box: By default only administrator can see the box, but if you see the Custom sidebars menu you should see the metabox. The capability needed to edit custom sidebars since version 0.7 is “switch_themes”, before that version it was different, maybe it’s because of that you are not getting the box.

* You are editing a custom post-type post, not a page nor post. The metabox is not added to the custom post-type editing page.

* Some other plugin is modifying the boxes that are shown. You said that previous versions worked well, so try to install the version you are sure works fine, and if it is not working thing about new plugins you installed.

Hi Javier,
Custom Sidebars is my most useful plugin. Somehow my original default sidebar is no longer available for substitution. Now I can’t substitute any of the sidebars in my old posts. Is there any way you could help? I can give you a password to my admin. Happy to give a donation too.

Thanks!

healthystate, it is strange what you are saying, you mean that you can’t see the default sidebar for replacement in your “custom sidebars” admin page? or you can’t see the replacement metabox in your post edit page??

Have you installed any plugins recently? Follow me on twitter, i’ll follow you too and we can speak by direct messages. @marquex

Hey, there appears to be some problem with the new version of Custom Sidebars. A while ago I installed v0.5 on a custom theme I’m developing and it worked fine, but when I updated to 0.7, all sidebars disappeared from the pages. I checked the setup in the admin panel and it all seems fine (haven’t made any changes). Then I removed all the files of the v0.7 plugin and put in the files of v0.5 and it works again.

Any ideas what might be wrong?

P.S. I’m using wordpress 3.0.5

Also checked with v0.6, it works. It’s only when I upgrade to 0.7.1 that it stops working (all custom sidebars disappear and are replaced by the default one, even though the setup is there, in the admin panel). When I revert to v0.6 (or 0.5) they re-appear.

Sorry I’m not giving any more specifics, but I don’t know what to look for. Ask if you have any questions on the setup.

Hi alphard,

Have you tried with v0.7 or v0.7.1? In the last version the hook used to replace sidebars has changed, so maybe your theme is not using the new hook.

What theme are you using?

In the last version the hook used to replace sidebars has changed

Do you mean in the last version of wordpress (3.0.5)? What is this hook?

The theme is one which I’m developing now, but it’s not publicly available yet. I’m just using the register_sidebar() function to register a single sidebar and then call it using dynamic_sidebar(). So that’s all the sidebar code in the theme, really.

I tried v0.7.1 of the plugin, the sidebars will not appear and replace the default registered sidebar, whereas v0.5/0.6 of the plugin works properly in the same theme.

I mean in v7.0.1. The new hook is wp_head, and there it is where the replacements of sidebars happen, so, if you are not using the wp_head action, everything should work on admin area but the replacements (the very important thing) don’t.

But it is really strange you are using a theme that doesn’t include
wp_head()
in your header.php file.

Okay, added wp_head() and it now works. Awesome, thanks. This is the first wordpress theme I’m creating, so I didn’t know what exactly wp_head() was for, since widgets worked so far without it.

Well, now you understand the meaning of

‘Dont forget the wp_head() function‘

Also i recommend not to forget wp_foot() either:

https://blog.buckleupstudios.com/wordpress-wp_head-wp_footer-functions

Cheers

i meant wp_footer()

Hello! I’m fairly new to WordPress and was wondering if I am able to use this plugin to change the sidebar in the Profile page, since it doesn’t have a Page in the Dashboard to modify. Thank you

Hello, congratulations for your plugin.

I was wondering in which file new sidebars are registered and stored. Are they under the functions.php file for each theme? I just could not find the new ones I created using the plugin.

Thanks a lot!

Hi Marquex,

I’m developing a site in WP 3.1 and am having trouble with your plugin. All seems to be working fine, except that the sidebar options do not appear in ‘Edit Page’ or ‘New Page’ admin panel.

Works wonderfully with posts with nice dropdown selection for sidebars, but no sidebar selection options at all with pages.

I’ve substituted other themes, so that’s not the problem. Might be 3.1. I don’t know–just discovered your plugin last week.

Thanks,
Catherine