Same Sidebar for All Pages

onepace
asked 7 years ago

I want to make sure the sidebar on every page the plugin creates is the same.

I created a custom sidebar called “question-sidebar” and I’m trying the following code, but it’s not working.

// Registering new sidebar for Singular Question Page


genesis_register_sidebar( array(

'id'            => 'question-sidebar',

'name'            => __( 'Single Question Sidebar'),

'description'    => __( 'This is the single question sidebar section.' ),

) );
add_action('get_header','custom_question_sidebar');
function custom_question_sidebar() {

    if ( is_singular('dwqa-question') ) {  

        remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );

        add_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'do_question_sidebar' );

    }

}

function do_question_sidebar() { genesis_widget_area( 'question-sidebar' ); }

I also tried…

// Registering new sidebar for Question Plugin


genesis_register_sidebar( array(

'id' => 'question-sidebar',

'name' => __( 'Question Sidebar'),

'description' => __( 'This is the question sidebar.' ),

) );
add_action('get_header','custom_question_sidebar');
function custom_question_sidebar() {

if ( is_page( array( 128, 129 ) ) || is_singular('dwqa-question') ) {
 remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );

add_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'do_question_sidebar' );

}

}

function do_question_sidebar() { genesis_widget_area( 'question-sidebar' ); }

What am I doing wrong? How do I get the same sidebar on each page?

2 Answers

DominicStaff
answered 7 years ago

Please send me username & password of your site for further checking, I will help you resolve it.

onepace
replied 7 years ago

I appreciate the response, but giving you my un/pw is not exactly a solution.

DominicStaff
answered 7 years ago

In this case, you can add the following code the functions.php file to create new widget sidebar.
1/ Add the code

function dw_theme_widgets_init() {
register_sidebar( array(
'name' => __( 'Q&A Sidebar', 'demo-theme' ),
'id' => 'sidebar-qa',
'description' => 'Add the widgets to show on the question page',
'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</aside>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'dw_theme_widgets_init' );

2/ Add the following code to the sidebar.php file in your theme folder.

<?php
/**
 * The sidebar containing the main widget area
 *
 * @package WordPress
 * @subpackage Twenty_Fifteen
 * @since Twenty Fifteen 1.0
 */
 $dwqa_options = get_option( 'dwqa_options' );
$dwqa_options = get_option( 'dwqa_options' );
 $page_template = false;
if ( isset( $dwqa_options['pages']['archive-question'] ) ) {
 $page_template = get_post_meta( $dwqa_options['pages']['archive-question'], '_wp_page_template', true );
}
 if ( ( is_tax( 'dwqa-question_category' ) || is_tax( 'dwqa-question_tag' ) || is_post_type_archive( 'dwqa-question' ) || is_post_type_archive( 'dwqa-answer' ) || isset( $wp_query->query_vars['dwqa-question_tag'] ) || isset( $wp_query->query_vars['dwqa-question_category'] ) || is_singular( 'dwqa-question' ) || is_page_template( $page_template ) || is_page( $dwqa_options['pages']['archive-question'] ) ) &&
 ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-qa' ) ) ) : ?>
<div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
 <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-qa' ); ?>
</div>
<?php elseif ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ) ) : ?>
 <div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
 <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ); ?>
 </div>
<?php endif; ?>

3/ Create new file with named “sidebar-qa.php” Then add the following code to this file:

<?php
 ?>
 <?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-qa' ) ) : ?>
<div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
 <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-qa' ); ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>

4/ Go to the Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets and add the widgets to the “Q&A Sidebar”.