[xavier039]

I have a wordpress blog and I would like to add more than one sidebar. I have my functions.php script to register 4 sidebars:

PHP Code:

<?php

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar1',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="side-c %2$s">', // Removes <li>

'after_widget' => '</div>', // Removes </li>

'before_title' => '<h3>', // Replaces <h2>

'after_title' => '</h3>', // Replaces </h2>

));

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar2',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="side-c %2$s">', // Removes <li>

'after_widget' => '</div>', // Removes </li>

'before_title' => '<h3>', // Replaces <h2>

'after_title' => '</h3>', // Replaces </h2>

));

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar3',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="side-c %2$s">', // Removes <li>

'after_widget' => '</div>', // Removes </li>

'before_title' => '<h3>', // Replaces <h2>

'after_title' => '</h3>', // Replaces </h2>

));

register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar4',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="side-c %2$s">', // Removes <li>

'after_widget' => '</div>', // Removes </li>

'before_title' => '<h3>', // Replaces <h2>

'after_title' => '</h3>', // Replaces </h2>

));

?>

My sidebar.php script is set for 4 sidebars as well:

PHP Code:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar1') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar2') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar3') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar4') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

I have my sidebars set in the right place. I placed my

PHP Code:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

in the right places. However when I go to place the 4 widgets all 4 widgets only appear in the first sidebar while the other sidebars remain blank. Any ideas?

[job0107]

Your code snippets don't tell us much.
You need to post your code so we can see what's going on.

[xavier039]

Well the only other script that does anything with the sidebars is the header and footer. Both of them just have get_sidebar. Here is the header script

PHP Code:

 <dl class="categorylist">

  <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

         

        </dl>

        <!-- end categories -->

    

      </div>

      <!-- col1 -->

    

        <div id="content">

Here is the footer script

PHP Code:

</div>

        <!-- content -->

    

    

    

        <div id="col3">

          <!-- begin sponsored text -->

<div class="sidebox">

          <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

          </div>

    

            <!-- end sponsored text -->

            

          <div class="sidebox">

              

            <?php get_sidebar(); ?></div>



          <div class="sidebox">

                <?php get_sidebar(); ?></div>

The rest of the script inside the header and footer is extraneous. Do you need something else?

[End User]

Have you tried asking this question on the Wordpress forum? That would be the logical place to start.

[job0107]

As End_User said the Wordpress forum would be the place to go.

There are just too many variables that need to be addressed to
figure out why your code doesn't work. From what I've read,
it looks like it should work.

[xavier039]

I have tried there. I have always had so much help here so I thought I would try it. I thought it would work as well. Any ideas on what I should at least look for. I am running out of ideas. Thanks.

[job0107]

Mostly it depends on what version of Wordpress you have and whether or not it's
widget enabled and if you have the right pluggins and are they enabled.
Do you have the correct functions.php and is it in the correct folder.
And the list goes on.

Without knowing what you have and how you have it setup and then doing
some extensive research to see if everything is correct, as you can see there
are a lot of variables to contend with.

I don't know Wordpress, just PHP. I could modify some of the Wordpress files
if I knew exactly what's going on.

And I have neither the time or the desire to learn Wordpress.

There's nothing that Wordpress can do that I can't do with PHP, CSS and Javascript.
And a MySQL database comes in handy too.