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Hey folks.
Trying to apply a custom sidebar for specific archive categories. Found the below snippet here, which is supposed to be applied to sidebar.php – so I copied sidebar.php to my child theme folder and added it, and it broke the site. In the example, artist is the category, and Directory Sidebar is the name of the custom sidebar.
Help?
Thanks!
if (is_archive(artist)) {
dynamic_sidebar(‘Directory Sidebar’);
$default_sidebar = false;
}Hey interage,
What was the error?
Can you please check server log for error text?
Best regards,
VictoriaOK – first off, I miscoded it…
It should have been category, not archive. But it’s still throwing an error.
Here’s the proper code:
if (is_category(artist)) {
dynamic_sidebar(‘Directory Sidebar’);
$default_sidebar = false;Here’s the error it throws:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘Sidebar’’ (T_STRING) in (site) /wp-content/themes/enfold-child/sidebar.php on line 76
That’s this line:
dynamic_sidebar(‘Directory Sidebar’);
Thanks!
M
Hi interage,
Here is how to use the functions:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar
This line should be:dynamic_sidebar('directory-sidebar');If you need further assistance please let us know.
Best regards,
VictoriaHi interage,
Here is how to use the functions:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar
This line should be:dynamic_sidebar('directory-sidebar');If you need further assistance please let us know.
Best regards,
VictoriaThank you so much!!!
FYI – Josue posted here back in 2013 using two words for the sidebar name:
https://kriesi.at/support/topic/sidebar-functionality-and-assigning-sidebar-to-category-archive-page/#post-175388You might want to edit that!
Thanks again.
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