wordpress 4.2 update broken enfold theme register_sidebar

I’m getting the same type of errors when I have debug set to true.

Running: enfold 3.1.3
WordPress: 4.2

– disregard the ‘xxxxxxx’ in the following…
– This type of error is occurring on 2 of my WordPress sites that are up-to-date and that I’ve checked. I only use enfold…

Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Displayed Everywhere” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-1”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-1” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Sidebar Blog” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-2”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-2” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Sidebar Pages” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-3”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-3” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Footer – column1” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-4”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-4” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Footer – column2” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-5”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-5” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Footer – column3” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-6”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-6” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Footer – column4” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-7”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-7” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Notice: register_sidebar was called incorrectly. No id was set in the arguments array for the “Site Map” sidebar. Defaulting to “sidebar-8”. Manually set the id to “sidebar-8” to silence this notice and keep existing sidebar content. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 4.2.0.) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 3560 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter – headers already sent (output started at /home/ipgcom/domains/initiativespg.com/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php:3560) in /home/xxxxxx/domains/xxxxxxxxx.com/public_html/wp-content/themes/enfold/config-templatebuilder/avia-shortcodes/masonry_entries.php on line 32

• This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by splashmediagroup.

Hello, same problem here. I restored a backup because the whole one-page setting was ruined by updating to Wp 4.2.1. My debug showed the same errors as pasted in “splashmediagroup’s” post. Please release an update for Enfold when fixed. I lost my “Displayed Everywhere”, Sidebar Blog and Sidebar Pages as well.

Thanks!

The errors are the result of the coders of Enfold not understanding basic WordPress practices for registering sidebar widgets, including assigning a unique ID value for each widget area. The Pastebin files were a start at fixing this by assigning IDs to the widget areas. However, the problem with the Pastebin fix is that it used the ID of “sidebar-1”, “sidebar-2”, etc., AGAIN for the footer widget areas. This is why the footer widgets show and not the default sidebars. The footer widget areas are assigned last using the same IDs as the default sidebar areas, so they are the ones that show.

The fix is to change this line for the footer IDs:

'id' => 'sidebar-'.$i,

to

'id' => 'footer-widget-'.$i,

However, that is MY fix, and may not be what the Kriesi team decides to do as the final fix. My fix simply allows the footer widgets to have their own ID that is not a duplicate of the default sidebar ids. They will need to do something similar.

And, yes, turning off debug will hide the errors, so maybe that’s the best way to handle this for now.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by boulderalliance.