Comments on: WordPress and register_sidebar

By: Roger Coathup

Roger Coathup — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:40:34 +0000

Putting together a theme with around 20 named sidebars... the foreach loop (obvious, but so easily overlooked in all the other register sidebar code examples) is very helpful... thanks

By: Terry Kernan

Terry Kernan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:31:19 +0000

There really wasn't any trouble, but I think the person who wrote the premium theme might appreciate the feedback.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:27:31 +0000

Sorry for the trouble. It was a snippet from a premium theme

By: wordpress no posts / pages found | giblitz

wordpress no posts / pages found | giblitz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:34:45 +0000

[...] great, see my other widgets posts). Only trouble was that when I tried to use code from another developer to make widget placement easier, it broke my website, making posts and pages invisible, both on the [...]

By: Terry Kernan

Terry Kernan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:28:43 +0000

I can confirm that the use of the $name variable in the lean version above breaks my theme in wordpress 2.8, changing it to $sidebar done the trick!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:27:06 +0000

Carolina, not easy without checking your code. Maybe a wrong character?

By: Carolina

Carolina — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:16:36 +0000

Hi, I will try to make me understand in english (i´m from Argentina), my problem is that when i try to change the code in function.php, its shows me a notice "Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/deseostr/public_html/wp-content/themes/japanese-cherry-blossom-10/functions.php:9) in /home/deseostr/public_html/wp-admin/theme-editor.php on line 70"
The thing is that i actually changed teh code yesterday, and the day before and nothing appeared...
Someone knows what can i do?
thanks

By: Leonard

Leonard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:54:49 +0000

Apologies for bringing up that main question for the post about whether we should use function exists, was here looking for other information and scanned over it, only just going back and realising how arrogant it probably sounded.

To comment on it again I guess its like with making sites for older browsers, how many versions should you support before you just have to leave behind those who have neglected to keep up? The default theme in wordpress may have dropped some code in recent versions but having been distributed purely with that version does it really mean template makers in the world at large should?

By: Leonard

Leonard — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:36:32 +0000

Awesome post, really answered a lot of questions but I would say integrate bagheadinc's comment into the actual post as I tried the code and it killed off my posts on the front and back ends. Changed $name and it worked a charm.

Also in regards to Sarah asking about the if function exists line, surely if your creating themes for the public then its handy to have these in for older versions people are using, maybe accompanied by an else echoing a message to get updated! I've only really just got to the meat of wordpress and I love it but knowing what some clients are like, some won't pay for someone to update their wordpress (or even think of it) and are scared to do it themselves (until of course all the exploits get used and they get their site hacked).

By: Arian Xhezairi

Arian Xhezairi — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:04:53 +0000

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