Adding A New Widget to Wordpress Disables the Existing Widgets

Question

I need to add four sidebar widgets that display on designated pages. When I add the code to create the new widgets to the functions.php, it disables the other widgets.

The footer widget, and one of the existing sidebar widgets stops working. They still appear in Appearance -> Widgets, but on the website they stop displaying.

Here is the code I used to add the widget.

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'Sidebar About',
    'id' => 'about-sidebar',
    'description' => 'Sidebar that shows only on the About page',
    'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s">',
    'after_widget' => '</li>',
    'before_title' => '<h2>',
    'after_title' => '</h2>',
));

}

I am worried that my clients website has too many plugins that may interfere with creating new widgets.

Answer 1

You missed a lot of things . You have to add add action hook in your code. In below I give you an ideal widget code. Now try this.Replace your code with mine. Hope it will work. Thanks

    function test_widgets_init() {
    register_sidebar( array(
        'name'          => esc_html__( 'Sidebar', 'test' ),
        'id'            => 'sidebar-1',
        'description'   => esc_html__( 'Add widgets here.', 'test' ),
        'before_widget' => '<section id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget'  => '</section>',
        'before_title'  => '<h2 class="widget-title">',
        'after_title'   => '</h2>',
    ) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'test_widgets_init' );