http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Sun, 26 May 2013 00:06:57 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-register-a-new-sidebar-in-a-child-theme#post-4707 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:17:23 +0000 EricH 4707@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>This should help.<br /> <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/widgets-in-the-header" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/widgets-in-the-header</a> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/how-to-register-a-new-sidebar-in-a-child-theme#post-4700 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:49:25 +0000 tza79 4700@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I tried to add a function in the child theme's functions.php that would register a new sidebar and it shows up in the Widget section in the backend, but I can't call it in the theme.</p> <p>Here is the code:</p> <pre><code>function child_widgets_init() { // Area 6 register_sidebar(array( &#39;name&#39; =&gt; &#39;Homepage Top&#39;, &#39;id&#39; =&gt; &#39;homepage-top&#39;, &#39;before_widget&#39; =&gt; &#39;&lt;li id=&quot;%1$s&quot; class=&quot;widgetcontainer %2$s&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;widgetcont&quot;&gt;&#39;, &#39;after_widget&#39; =&gt; &quot;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&quot;, &#39;before_title&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;, &#39;after_title&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;, )); } add_action( &#39;init&#39;, &#39;child_widgets_init&#39; );</code></pre> <p>Any ideas? Thanks! </p>