Registering Sidebars

[mehubbard]

Hi
My site is www.sweetbirdclassics.org

What I am trying to accomplish is to have a different sidebar on individual pages where I can exclude all but the subpages for that page so that my sidebars don't get too long.

I am not well versed in code but after reading info here and in the wordpress codex, I copied sidebar.php and remaned it sidebar-2 and then made this attempt to register a sidebar named sidebar-2. It is not showing up on the when I try to edit widgets.

function register_sidebars($number = 1, $args = array('name'=> 'sidebar-2','before_title'=>'<h1>','after_title'=>'</h1')) {
global $wp_registered_sidebars;
$number = (int) $number;

Many thanks

[sofimi]

To register sidebars, try something like this:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar-1',
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h1 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h1>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar-2',
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h1 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h1>',
    )); 

The widget code should call the name of the sidebar in your file, e.g.:

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-2') ) : ?>
(...stuff here...)
<?php endif; ?>

Hi
My site is www.sweetbirdclassics.org

What I am trying to accomplish is to have a different sidebar on individual pages where I can exclude all but the subpages for that page so that my sidebars don't get too long.

I am not well versed in code but after reading info here and in the wordpress codex, I copied sidebar.php and remaned it sidebar-2 and then made this attempt to register a sidebar named sidebar-2. It is not showing up on the when I try to edit widgets.

function register_sidebars($number = 1, $args = array('name'=> 'sidebar-2','before_title'=>'<h1>','after_title'=>'</h1')) {
global $wp_registered_sidebars;
$number = (int) $number;

Many thanks