dynamic sidebar in front page

Question

I am developing TwentyTen child theme and wish to display dynamic sidebar on front page, but something is not quite right.

I modified loop-page.php:

<div class="entry-content">
    <?php dynamic_sidebar('promotion-sidebar'); ?> //ADDED LINE
    <?php the_content(); ?>
    <?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>
    <?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyten' ), '<span class="edit-link">', '</span>' ); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-content -->

At first I was invoking it inside is_front_page conditional statement but then to double check issue I decided to call it on every page. And guess what it appears on every single one except on the one I want: THE FRONT PAGE

Edit: I am using Sidebar Template for my static front page.

I just don't get it. Any help appreciated.

Answer 1

loop-page.php is the wrong context for what you are trying to do.

If you want it to appear on the home page, then you need to edit loop.php, so in your child theme you can either create a file called,

loop.php

...which should take precedence over the loop.php found in the parent TwentyTen theme or better yet create a file called,

loop-index.php

...which will take first priority over the above. By doing this and NOT creating a loop.php we will allow the loop.php file in the parent theme to act as a fall back in case something goes wrong.

Hopefully that makes sense.

In summary, you want to create a loop-index.php file (best option).

You can simply copy the contents of what you find in loop-page.php over to this loop-index.php file to give you the basic framework for your template, then you can modify the template to your liking.