Widgets Reset on Refresh

  • Hi there, i need help regarding widgets.

    I have sidebars and when i add text to them via Appearance>Widgets, its fine. But when i refresh that page, it resets the text for the sidebar to nothing.

    This means i can add text and stuff to my custom sidebars once, but when i want to go back to edit a page, all of the sidebars would be reset.

    Any ideas what might cause this?

    I have a functions.php file and in it i create a seperate sidebar widget for every page and name each one according to the page name.

    Thanks a lot for any help

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  • Thread Starter tooone7

    (@tooone7)

    Edit: Foregot to add the first 3 variables.

    Here is the code in my functions.php page:

    $pagecount = count(get_pages('parent=0'));
$names = array();
$IDs = array();

function getNames() {
		$i = 0;
		$pages = get_pages();

		foreach($pages as $page) {
			$name = $page->post_title;
			$names[$i] = $name;

			$id = $page->ID;
			$IDs[$i] = $id;

			if ( function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
				register_sidebar(array(
					'name' => $names[$i],
					'id' => $IDs[$i],
					'description' => '',
					'before_widget' => "<div class='left_mid'>",
					'after_widget' => '</div>',
					'before_title' => "<h2 class='cusstom'>",
					'after_title' => '</h2>'));
			}
			$i++;
		}
	}

	getNames();

	if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
		//create the default widget. If no text is entered in another widget, the default text will be displayed
		register_sidebar(array(
			'name' => 'Default',
			'id' => 'default',
			'description' => 'The default text that should be displayed. Is overridden when text is entered in another widget for the page.',
			'before_widget' => "<div class='left_mid'>",
			'after_widget' => '</div>',
			'before_title' => "<h2 class='cusstom'>",
			'after_title' => '</h2>'));
	}

    The “default sidebar doesnt reset when i refresh the page. All the others do. Why is that?

    Thread Starter tooone7

    (@tooone7)

    I found the solution.

    I made the id the same as the name instead of IDs[$i].

    I have no idea why this fixed the problem. Could anyone that has more knowledge please tell me why it didnt work with id = $IDs[$i]?

    Thanks

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