http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Mon, 20 May 2013 16:40:02 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/widget-area-placementagain#post-24639 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:44:03 +0000 fwunder 24639@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Talking to myself (I do that a lot)..</p> <p>OK, so I simply "did it the wordpress way" and rather than use the add_left_sidebar function above, I simple changed to:<br /> <code><br /> 'before_widget' =&gt; '&lt;div id="left_sidebar"&gt;' ,<br /> 'after_widget' =&gt; '&lt;/div&gt;' ,<br /> </code></p> <p>then used dynamic_sidebar('left-sidebar'); in my custom style hook function.</p> <p>Book it, Danno. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/widget-area-placementagain#post-24636 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:45:27 +0000 fwunder 24636@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>OK, so I create a working widget area thusly:</p> <p><code><br /> //register sidebar widget<br /> function left_sidebar( ) {<br /> register_sidebar (array (<br /> 'name' =&gt; 'Left Sidebar',<br /> 'id' =&gt; 'left-sidebar',<br /> 'description' =&gt; __( 'A widget area in left sidebar', 'thematic'),<br /> 'before_widget' =&gt; thematic_before_widget( ) ,<br /> 'after_widget' =&gt; thematic_after_widget( ) ,<br /> 'before_title' =&gt; thematic_before_title( ) ,<br /> 'after_title' =&gt; thematic_after_title( ) )<br /> ) ;<br /> }<br /> add_action('init', 'left_sidebar') ;</p> <p>//add Left Sidebar area<br /> function add_left_sidebar( ) {<br /> if (is_sidebar_active('left-sidebar')) {<br /> echo thematic_before_widget_area('left-sidebar');<br /> dynamic_sidebar('left-sidebar');<br /> echo thematic_after_widget_area('left-sidebar');<br /> }<br /> }<br /> add_action('thematic_abovecontent', 'add_left_sidebar');<br /> </code><code></p> <p>That's fine and dandy and works like a charm, however, instead of Thematic placing it in a pre-determined widget area, I want to place it in a custom action hook - something like get_sidebar('add_left-sidebar'); </p> <p>Placing dynamic_sidebar('left-sidebar'); in the hook sorta works, but I don't think that's right.</p> <p>Thanks again and sorry to be such a pest.</code> </p>