The case of the disappearing WordPress widgets

A silly one this time

The Problem

I was recently working on someone else’s WordPress theme that made extensive use of WordPress Widgets and the new dynamic sidebar feature.  I was able to recreate the widgets (there was a working staging site) but the on the production site the widgets did not appear.  What to do about disappearing WordPress widgets?

The Cause

I had changed the name of the theme.  For some reason the register_sidebar has to have the name hard coded, for example

register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => __( 'Banner Area', 'themename' ),
		'id' => 'Banner-area',
		'description' => __( 'Banner area', 'themename' ),

		'before_widget' => ' <div>',

		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<div><h1>',
		'after_title' => '</h1></div>',
	) );

The Solution

Just change the name of the theme to the new name and you’re all set!

 

Written By Steve French

 

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 12th, 2013 at 2:11 pmand is filed under How To Fix, WordPress . You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.

 

 

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