In a previous post is says that when I add widgets to the sidebar through the widget editor, the default widgets are supposed to go away. For me they are not. I end up with the ones I've added, as well as, the default blogroll, rss feed and meta widgets. Do I need to do something differently? I'm still in the early stages, so I haven't really made any other changes.
Thanks!
Patrick
Try the "Reset Widgets" button in the Thematic options.
Hey Patrick,
could you please provide some more details? You're writing about the widget editor? Have you edited the widgets.php?
Thanks,
Chris
Ian, i tried the reset widgets button, and it reset the page to remove the widgets i added. unfortunately, the orginal blogroll, meta and rssfeeds stayed.
Chris, i am using the "widget" page under "appearance" in wordpress to add and remove widgets. i have not edited the widgets.php. from the other post i read, it didn't seem i needed to, and i didn't want to make a change directly to code that might impact things later.
Patrick
Hey Patrick,
the described behavior for the reset widgets button is normal .. It'll remove and free up all widgets.
What happens if you now add one widget to primary aside and one to secondary aside?
Cheers,
Chris
Looks like i have to add something to the secondary aside. If I don't add a widget to the secondary aside, all three default widgets show up. If I add any single or combination of widgets to the secondary aside, then only the ones I add show up.
I guess I didn't understand how it works :-)
Thanks!
Patrick
Ok .. if you don't want to add something to secondary aside you can use this code snippet in the child theme's functions.php:
function conditional_sidebar () {
if (!is_sidebar_active('primary-aside') ): ?>
<STYLE type="text/css">
#primary { display: none }
</STYLE>
<?php
endif;
if (!is_sidebar_active('secondary-aside') ) : ?>
<STYLE type="text/css">
#secondary { display: none }
</STYLE>
<?php
endif;
}
//add_action('wp_head', 'conditional_sidebar');This will send a display:none if you don't add a widget to primary or secondary aside.
Cheers,
Chris
you guys rock! what else is there to say...
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