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add sidebar area to header of child theme
How can I add some extra sidebar locations for widgets in a child theme. The difficulty I'm having is because the parent theme uses some pretty gnarly setup to define the current sidebars.
I would ...
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Show or hide custom menu widget in side bar conditionally
I have been trying and searching to accomplish this. I have the "custom menu" widgets "Members Area", "Admin Area" in side bar, assigned menus to them. Fine, they display.
I want to show "Admin Area" ...
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Copy Widget Settings because of changed IDs
I want to update a customers blog to a child theme that is based on a newer version of the actual deployed theme. My problem is, the developers of the theme changed the IDs of sidebars. In the old ...
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How to insert widget areas specific to certain pages (or posts, etc.)?
I am developing a theme the pages of which (as well as posts) are so different from the home page that I want different widgets on their sidebars.Is there a way to do it?
I'm calling the sidebar on ...
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How could a Widget behave differently depending on sidebar
if sitting on sidebar-1, I need my widget to behave differently than if it were on sidebar-2. How can i detect the sidebar it is sitting on from within the widget() function?
The widget contains a ...
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Targeting specific Page Template for sidebar page
Currently, there is a sidebar dedicated to all posts, and one for all pages. What I would like to do is target specific page templates to display sidebars for each template.
if(is_front_page())
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If Post is in a category, show special sidebar [closed]
I'm trying to show a sidebar only to posts which are in a specific category or categories. I get a server error when trying this:
<?php if (in_category( '306' ))
{
<?php ...
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Move Widget Meta Box From Appearance to Pages
Is it possible to relocate the widget/sidebar meta boxes that normally appear at Appearance > Widgets so that they appear as a meta box on a specific page's Page Edit dashboard page?
Here's what ...
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Widget Management/Sidebar Strategy for CMS sites
I've been mulling of this question for a while and try out different approaches for each site: What is a flexible approach to managing widgets on a CMS sidebar that is easy to use and maintain as well ...
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Sidebar IF query hiding everything
I have this query which I'm using in the sidebar, but when I place it in a php widget, the whole sidebar disappears... The code is below and the full sidebar code is in a pastebin here ...
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Cannot retrieve author in sidebar of single.php
Within a post I can use the_author() to retrieve the author name, but in the sidebar of a single-post page this does not return anything. How to get metadata on the post author outside the post?
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Any way to duplicate an entire sidebar?
I was an early adopter of Wordpress, in 2004. It has come a long way, but the Widgets admin panel has not.
I have to make multiple (maybe 20-30+) sidebars for one site, and so I'm facing the prospect ...
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custom siderbar with custom cat post widget does not include content
I am trying to make a template with a left sidebar. In that sidebar I want to insert custom cat post query using a text widget so I can format it correctly the way I want. However when I do The ...
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Sidebar If Query
I have this query which I'm using in the sidebar, but when I place it in a php widget, the whole sidebar disappears... Any ideas?
global $wp_query;
$postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
if ( ! empty( ...
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Display Random Author with Details in Sidebar
PHP newbie here, recently decided to have a stab at cobbling together a kooky little 'Random Author Spotlight' feature into my current WordPress theme. I'm almost done, but I've hit something of a ...
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How do I exclude portrait pictures from the nextgen gallery sidebar widget?
I have a gallery that contains both landscape and portrait pictures and want the gallery to be displayed in the wordpress sidebar. The problem is that the thumbnails of the portraits are scaled into ...
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Output dynamic_sidebar into PHP
I know
wp_title("",false)
Outputs a title for a page into HTML.
How do I do the same for the
dynamic_sidebar();
?
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Facebook plugin activated, widget in sidebar yet doesn't show on page - stumped
I have the official Facebook plugin v.1.3 on my website. The plugin is activated, the Facebook Like Box widget can be moved into the sidebar and all options set, yet it doesn't show up in my sidebar. ...
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display specific sidebar for each role
Does someone know if it's possible to display a specific sidebar per user-role ? (only accessible if the user is logged as the specific role related to the specific sidebar )?
What I want is to have ...
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How to use the empty space left and right of a post?
(WordPress 3.5.1, theme 20-11)
I would like to use the red colored areas left and right to a post and can't find information on what plugin might deal with that.
How can I add content there - ...
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Display all posts under child sub category in sidebar on post page?
I am trying to make a custom sidebar for my posts in certain categories. It will look something like this.
My category structure looks like this:
Parent 1
Child 1
Sub Child 1
Sub Child 2
Child ...
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Registering Sidebars and Sidebar Widgets. Sidebar Widgets Not Displaying
I am registering sidebars and sidebar widgets.
The theme currently supports two sidebars. Primary and Secondary.
add_action('widgets_init', array($this, 'add_sidebars'), 10, 2);
public function ...
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How to hide sub categories in sidebar [closed]
i want to hide subcategories in widget sidebar . just in widget sidebar
i was added in style.css this code
.children { display:none;}
but this code do hide to the threaded comments
what is the ...
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IE 6~8 ignoring font, background, and margins on sidebar [closed]
I am using the default Twenty Twelve Wordpress theme with my site, and I am trying to customize the sidebar. The CSS I am using is:
.widget-area, #secondary{
float: right;
width: 210px;
font-family: ...
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Wordpress - Allow dynamic text to be added into a sidebar upon page creation
I have a page template in WordPress that allows new pages to be created to display and explain treatment details. E.g.
Chiropractor Page
Acupuncture Page
When a new treatment page is created from ...
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How can I hide the sidebar from a specific post?
I'd like to hide the sidebar on a specific post (not page). How can I do this?
For background, I've searched quite a bit both on Google and here. I'm finding lots of solutions for showing different ...
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Single template will not show sidebar/bottom-nav and footer
Im using the blankslate template theme and have a sidebar which i would like to use throughout the website.
On my sidebar on the homepage i have a widget called latest posts with the latest post ...
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Sidebars are no longer working
I am trying to figure out why my sidebar is no longer working. I tried reinstalling my theme, disabling all of my plugins, and uploading a fresh version of widgets.php, with no luck.
I am using the ...
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Recommended sidebar / content widths
I'm developing my own theme. Does WordPress recommend or require a minimum or maximum when it comes to the width of the content or sidebar elements of an post, page or archive page? If not, are there ...
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How Do I Display A Custom Field In The Sidebar Of All My Pages?
I'm using the Types Plugin for Wordpress and created a custom field. I would like to display this custom field in the sidebar of all of my pages. The problem is that it only displays in the sidebar of ...
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Getting taxonomies specific to categories
I have categories set up for car manufacturers.
I have 4 custom taxonomies that are also set up: color, starburst, offer_type, and logo_count.
Each post I upload to my wordpress has values for all 4 ...
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adding multiple sidebars on pages
I am using twentyten theme and I want there to be two sidebars on my page - one on the left and the second on the right.
Can any one tell me how to do that?
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Multiple loops breaking side bar
Trying to put a bunch of loops in the side bar using WP_query.
<div id="FL-pest-libray-sidebar">
<?php $category_query_string = new WP_Query(array( 'post_type' => 'page' , ...
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Sidebar not appearing
The sidebar isn't appearing on my site: http://richardclunan.com/
I have a Text widget in the sidebar, with some test text in it…
In 'Edit Page', there's no 'no sidebar' option…
What things might I ...
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How do I add the same contact form to multiple wordpress sites and capture the response in one place or database?
I own a network of 100+ Wordpress based websites. All website are separate installations of Wordpress and are on different servers. I would like to
create one contact form
have it shown in the ...
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Dynamic content in a widget
I have to make a widget from where the user will be able to add a few images and then I will show only some of them, randomly, and it will be automatically changed on page refresh. The problem is that ...
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Displaying a widget in sidebar only when no other widgets rendered?
I am working on a custom theme, basically migrating a current sites look and feel into WordPress. Most of everything is based on Pages, and all of these pages should have a left sidebar. Of those ...
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Change twentytwelve sidebar responsive relocation?
I'm using twentytwelve as a base theme and I want to change a behavior of the sidebar. When viewing in mobile view (you can collapse your browser window all the way horizontally to see the same view) ...
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Custom tabs widget don't work in google chrome, is blocked, do not change the tabs. Why?
Code is the problem or is a Google Chrome issue?
Here is the code:
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
/* Create the widget
...
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Programmatically add widgets to sidebars
I would like to programmatically add widgets to my two sidebars that I've got. I couldn't find any official way of doing it?
I started looking in the database. I've found that it's the ...
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What is the difference with get_sidebar and dynamic_sidebar? [closed]
I was wondering which one I should use. Maybe one use widgets and the other one doesn't?
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page menu in single.php [closed]
Currently I am displaying posts based on category on a page, this page has custom side menu, which lists all the news articles, once a user clicks on the news title it takes it to that post display ...
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Text snippets shared across posts
I'd like to add a "fast facts" section to a wordpress site - an area in the sidebar where snippets of text are rotated.
Where is the best place to store things like this? Widgets don't really allow ...
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Sub-Pages only of menu items in current branch using a custom menu
Although I did a thorough research I could not find a solution. Only solutions coming close.
My custom menu ("top") shows this structure (you see a part of it):
page 1
subpage 1.1
category A
...
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How can I add multiple content-editable blocks without a plug-in?
I'm using WP as a CMS, not a blog. I have a lot of pages (not posts) that need to have different content per page in the sidebar. The content (html, images, php) in the sidebar will be different ...
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Need to setup grid like thumbnail of recent posts on sidebar
Something like this, no excerpts or anything else. I couldn't find any plugin that can do it:
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Stuck with sidebar registering
I tried to add a custom page to my Wordpress template. That part is good. What I´m stuck with is a common sidebar that appears although I registered a custom sidebar for it.
I am calling the ...
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Worpress twenty eleven sidebar on Pages
I am using 2011 theme, any how I managed to get sidebar on single.php pages by installing child theme,
But now I want sidebar on pages,
How do I get it?
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Integrate comment system in the sidebar?
I would like the comments of a post and the comment box to appear in the sidebar.
How can I do that?
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Different side menu on each page
Does anyone have a solution how to have different side menus on different pages?
Do I need to create template for every page?
I've registered many nav_menus in functions.php and than used pages ID as ...
