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WordPress From Bootstrap to WordPress Create Bootstrap Styled Theme Templates Creating a Basic Blog Listing Template

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
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Posted by Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Should Widget names not be showing up in Widget Area?

Should Widget names not be showing up in Widget Area?

'widgets'

I keep setting up new widgets for this course, however When Zac does it, he gets the name of the Widget area as well as it's description. All I get is what's in the above image.

Here's my functions.php file that sets up the widget.

//Create Widget(s)
function create_widget($name, $id, $description) {
    register_sidebar(array(
        'nameOfWidget' => ($name),  
        'id' => ($id),  
        'description' => ($description),
        'before_widget' => '<div class="widget">',
        'after_widget' => '</div>',
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3>'        
    ));
}
//give the widget a name, a unique identifer and short description
create_widget('Front Page Left','front-left','Displays on the left of the home page');
create_widget('Front Page Center','front-center','Displays on the center of the home page');
create_widget('Front Page Right','front-right','Displays on the right of the home page');

create_widget('Page Sidebar','page','Displays on the side with pages with a sidebar');
create_widget('Blog Sidebar','blog','Displays on the side of posts with a sidebar');
?>

I now have 5 widgets each with their name, identifier and description but currently only the description shows up to distinguish them. All the Widgets I have work as they should but they don't show up the same as way as in the videos. Is this normal for Wordpress 4.4?

Thanks :)

2 Answers

Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Dale Severude
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Hi Jonathan,
The 'nameOfWidget' name used in your register_sidebar array should be just 'name'.

        'name' => __( $name ),

Then the names should show up correctly.

Jonathan Grieve
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Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

Thanks Dale.

I'm going to look back and see where I got the idea for nameOfWidget. But thanks for your response, they widget names appear properly now :-)