Q: displaying widget area properly

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charlesolaes
Member
is there a specific way of displaying widget areas through thematic? In the widget-extensions.php there's a piece of code in the thematic_widget_init()
```
$widgets_dir = @ dir(ABSPATH . '/wp-content/themes/' . get_stylesheet() . '/widgets');
	  if ((TEMPLATENAME != THEMENAME) && ($widgets_dir)) {
		  while(($widgetFile = $widgets_dir->read()) !== false) {
			 if (!preg_match('|^\.+$|', $widgetFile) && preg_match('|\.php$|', $widgetFile))
				  include(ABSPATH . '/wp-content/themes/' . get_stylesheet() . '/widgets/' . $widgetFile);
		  }
	  }
```
so I created a file in my child theme dir 'widgets/file name' and it registered the widget area with no problem. Is there a specific way to display the widget area in home.php? or should I create a function and call the dynamic_sidebar(); and add_action to a thematic hook?

Thanks
Posted 1 year ago #
middlesister
Member

You do know that there are already 13 predefined widgets areas in thematic? Maybe there already is one where you need it. Widget areas are not displayed unless there actually are widgets in them.

The /widgets folder in your child theme is for dropping files containing actual widgets, not widget areas. A widget area like you guessed is best created in functions.php and added to thematic via a hook. Where do you want to add your widget area?

Posted 1 year ago #

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