Comments on: WordPress Theme Flexibility with Dynamic Sidebars

By: Jesse Taylor

Jesse Taylor

Thanks for the helpful article - it helped clear up what the codex was saying.

They really should deprecate the function name dynamic_sidebar/register_sidebar, and start calling them dynamic_widget()/register_widget ...

Anyhow thanks again!

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

Well spotted, tutorial updated thanks to you

By: LiebeTitian

LiebeTitian

Hello, sorry but I tried the above and it did not work. I finally managed to get it to work so thanks. But I think the problem lay in a PHP syntactical error:""... 'after_title' => ",));"shouldn't it be:"... 'after_title' => "" ));closing the last array value with a double-quotation mark and omitting the apostrophe? Just thought I point this out because there are probably a load of newbies pulling there hair out after copying the code verbatim!:-)

By: Jennifer R

Jennifer R

What is it different with "dynamic_sidebar( single-top) )" ? Could you explain for me? And is is necessary to put it on top of the post loop?

By: aj

I use these alot. Do you know how to prevent the opening and closing tags when using sidebars?
As an example I just want to store some text and it seems to force the tags whenever I call the dynamic sidebar function....

By: Caspar

Caspar

is_sidebar_active is not a wordpress function: http://wordpress.org/search/is_sidebar_active
So one will have to add it to the function.php if it's not already there.
Here's the author of the function: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/251790#post-1042029

By: Aleksandra

Aleksandra

So if I wanted to add these few of these to populate a page in WP...how would I go about it? Would there be a version of this I could use to create a "magazine" style blog page??? Because that would be super cool.

Thanks.

By: gethin

gethin

how can i use this code with dynamic_sidebar, I want to tell wordpress to select different sidebar using the maybe page_id or any page identifier and dynamic_sidebar,
Something like if you are @ homepage select this sidebar
elseif you are at about page select A sidebar,
elseif you are @ singlepost select B sidebar

thanks

By: jesse

jesse

Nice, I just wanted to be able to have two sidebars but now I know I can put widgets just about anywhere.

By: Chris Kilber

Chris Kilber

This is based on hooks at various points in the PHP headers, index, and footers, etc. I would kill to be able to have a hook inside the loop. For example, on the index PHP I would like to RSS feed for 1 post for every 3rd or 4th post as a plugin instead of having to modify the index.php

Where can this be done?

Thank you.

Chris Kilber
http://www.ChrisKilber.com
Home of 101 Traffic Generating Strategies

By: nomad

nomad

Goog article. Thanks, am added code after article

By: Kian Ann

Kian Ann

Awesomeness - combine this with exec-php plugin and the use of conditional tags and you can put almost anything in any place dynamically :D

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

There are two in the post, what did you have in mind? :)

By: Davies Lim

Davies Lim

Totally agree with Vlad, although using Hooks may seem very easy at first but some php knowledge is desirable to use them properly. It took me around a day or two to get Thesis to work the way I want it to be (prolly because I'm just picky). Oh for the Thesis users, don't forget the OpenHook plugin haha.

By: Vladimir

Vladimir

The image came from my theme which was based on Thesis framework. However I would not recommend it for casual bloggers, even I have hard time finding my way around it.