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Problem My sidebar is not displaying in the Wordpress footer.php file.

functions.php

<?php
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'social_media_sidebar' );
function social_media_sidebar() {
  register_sidebar( array(
        'name'          => 'Social Media Sidebar Widgets',
        'id'            => 'social_media_sidebar_widgets',
        'before_widget' => '<div>',
        'after_widget'  => '</div>',
        'before_title'  => '<span style="display:none;">',
        'after_title'   => '</span>',
  ));
}
?>

sidebar.php

<div class="sidebar">
    <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'social_media_sidebar_widgets' ); ?>
</div>

footer.php

<?php get_sidebar( 'social_media_sidebar_widgets' ); ?>

Note - the above footer.php call is not in a loop. That's the only thing I can think of that may be causing the widget to not display? I'm using the same call to get_sidebar in 3 other template files (within the loop) and they load just fine. I just can't get it to display in the footer. Nothing is being hidden with CSS.

What can I do to get the social_media_sidebar_widgets sidebar to display in my footer?

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The declaration in your footer tells WordPress to find the sidebar-social_media_sidebar_widgets.php file and apply it there.

I think what you want is to declare:

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'social_media_sidebar_widgets' ); ?>

in your footer.php file.

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  • a ha! that did the trick. Thank you, @Ryan! (will accept this answer once the time restriction passes)
    – Joe
    Jun 20, 2017 at 20:33
  • All good, my friend! Glad I could be of help :-)
    – Ryan
    Jun 20, 2017 at 20:38

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