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PHP How to Build a WordPress Theme Extending WordPress Template Functionality How to Widgetize a Theme

Paul Neumyer
Paul Neumyer
15,301 Points
Posted by Paul Neumyer
Paul Neumyer
15,301 Points

Widget Names not showing up

For some reason My Widget names that I am passing into the create_widget function is not showing up. They just say "Sidebar1", "Sidebar 2", and "Sidebar 3". Could it be related to the fact that I have upgraded my local Wordpress site to 3.9.1?

function create_widget($name, $id, $description ){
    $args = array(
        'name'          => __( $name, $name ),
        'id'            => $id,
        'description'   => $description,
        'before_widget' => '',
        'after_widget'  => "",
        'before_title'  => '<h5>',
        'after_title'   => "</h5>\n",
    );

    register_sidebar( '$args');

}


create_widget( 'Left Footer', "footer_left", "Display's in the left bottom of the footer");
create_widget( 'Middle Footer', "middle", "Display's in the middle of the footer");
create_widget( 'Right Footer', "right", "Display's in the right bottom of the footer");

1 Answer

ixrevo
ixrevo
32,051 Points
ixrevo
ixrevo
32,051 Points

If you mean upgrade from 3.9 to 3.9.1 it's very unlikely. It was maintenance release that doesn't include changes in functionality. And even it was major update WordPress wouldn't significantly change the major functionality such as create_widget function.

Please, try to change your function to:

function create_widget($name, $id, $description ){
    $args = array(
        'name'          => __( $name, 'my_text_domain' ),
        'id'            => $id,
        'description'   => $description,
        'before_widget' => '',
        'after_widget'  => "",
        'before_title'  => '<h5>',
        'after_title'   => "</h5>\n",
    );

    register_sidebar( '$args');

}

or

function create_widget($name, $id, $description ){
    $args = array(
        'name'          => $name,
        'id'            => $id,
        'description'   => $description,
        'before_widget' => '',
        'after_widget'  => "",
        'before_title'  => '<h5>',
        'after_title'   => "</h5>\n",
    );

    register_sidebar( '$args');

}