Multiple Sidebars issue

CMS & WordPress
1

I’m using register_sidebars to create multiple sidebars:

function ec_register_sidebars() {
register_sidebars( 3,
	array(
	'name' => 'Sidebar %d',
	'id' => "sidebar-$i",
	'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
	'after_widget' => '</li>',
	'before_title' => '',
	'after_title' => ''
	)
);

And this is in the theme:

<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'Sidebar 1' ) ) : ?>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Sidebar 1' ); ?>
	<?php else : ?>
	No primary sidebar content
<?php endif; ?>

Three sidebars appear within the WP admin. I am able to place widgets in all three. However nothing ever shows up in the theme when I load “Sidebar 1” but “Sidebar 2” and “Sidebar 3” work fine.

BUT I just noticed that if I check to see if Sidebar 2 or 3 are active, THEN I can display Sidebar 1:

<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'Sidebar 2' ) ) : ?>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Sidebar 1' ); ?>
	<?php else : ?>
	No primary sidebar content
<?php endif; ?>

What’s going on with this?

2

Any suggestions? If not can anyone tell me if there are common issues with Sidebars or even bugginess?

3

could you provide some detail as to what is required? preferably via a live link or some screenshot explaining what is happening with your current code and what should actually come up

4

[QUOTE=jaagare;5036354]could you provide some detail as to what is required? preferably via a live link or some screenshot explaining what is happening with your current code and what should actually come up[/QUOTE

Here are the sidebars in the admin: As you can see, Sidebar 1 has nothing showing even though I have saved a widget there several times. You can view a page here: http://estevancarlos.kodingen.com/ecv7/?projects=rada-2

Also, I’m not sure what happened but none of the sidebars are working now. Here’s the code for the sidebars from their respective sidebar template files:

<div id="sidebar-primary" class="sidebar">

	<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 3 ) ) : ?>

		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-3' ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<!-- Create some custom HTML or call the_widget().  It's up to you. -->
		No primary sidebar content

	<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div id="sidebar-article">

	<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 2 ) ) : ?>
		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-2' ); ?>
		<?php the_tags(); ?><br />

	<?php else : ?>

		<!-- Create some custom HTML or call the_widget().  It's up to you. -->
		No primary sidebar content

	<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div id="sidebar-primary">
	<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 2 ) ) : ?>

		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ); ?>

	<?php else : ?>

		<!-- Create some custom HTML or call the_widget().  It's up to you. -->
		No primary sidebar content

	<?php endif; ?>

</div>
5

Apologies for the horrible formatting in the previous post.

You can view my code here (consolidated into one text file. It’s not much): http://estevancarlos.kodingen.com/ecv7/ec_code.txt
and the URL again: http://estevancarlos.kodingen.com/ecv7/?projects=rada-2

6

Ok finally a solution.
here is how i went about it

first in functions.php added this code

if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebar’) )
{
register_sidebars( 3, $args );
$args = array(
‘name’ => sprintf(__(‘Sidebar %d’), $i ),
‘id’ => ‘sidebar-$i’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘’,
‘after_widget’ => ‘’,
‘before_title’ => ‘’,
‘after_title’ => ‘’ );

}

this is the standard wordpress code to create multiple sidebars and will create Sidebar 1, Sidebar 2 and Sidebar 3

Then where ever we want to show the sidebar

add this

<?php if ( dynamic_sidebar( ‘Sidebar 1’ ) ) {} else { echo ‘No primary sidebar content 1’; } ?>
<?php if ( dynamic_sidebar( ‘Sidebar 2’ ) ) {} else { echo ‘No primary sidebar content 2’; } ?>
<?php if ( dynamic_sidebar( ‘Sidebar 3’ ) ) {} else { echo ‘No primary sidebar content 3’; } ?>

hope this helps you

7

For multiple sidebars, this is the code I use in functions.php:

function register_theme_sidebars(){
    if( function_exists('register_sidebar') ){
        register_sidebar(array(
            'id' => 'sidebar-1',
            'name' => 'Sidebar 1',
            'description' => 'Description for sidebar location - will appear in wp-admin area.',
            'before_widget' => '',
            'after_widget' => '',
            'before_title' => '',
            'after_title' => ''
            ));
        register_sidebar(array(
            'id' => 'sidebar-2',
            'name' => 'Sidebar 2',
            'description' => 'Description for sidebar location - will appear in wp-admin area.',
            'before_widget' => '',
            'after_widget' => '',
            'before_title' => '',
            'after_title' => ''
            ));
        register_sidebar(array(
            'id' => 'sidebar-3',
            'name' => 'Sidebar 3',
            'description' => 'Description for sidebar location - will appear in wp-admin area.',
            'before_widget' => '',
            'after_widget' => '',
            'before_title' => '',
            'after_title' => ''
            ));
    }
}
add_action('widgets_init', 'register_theme_sidebars');

The way you did it is good. But this way you can change the settings for each sidebar - like title, description, etc.

You can also simplify the way you display the sidebar in theme like this:

<? if( !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-1') ): ?>
    Sidebar 1 doesn't have any widgets. 
<? endif; ?>

This way you don’t have to put the empty {} brackets.