http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:10:20 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/sidebarwidgets-dont-display-in-third-party-script#post-21559 Tue, 31 May 2011 06:01:45 +0000 Moss 21559@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Everyone,<br /> First of all I have to say Thematic is great! I am a designer/newbie to developing and I have learned a lot from reading the documentation and forums. I have successfully wrapped my WP header and footer design around a third party business directory script. However I have hit a brick wall.<br /> In short:<br /> The problem is that I can’t get the sidebar asides/widgets to display, I believe the hooks in my sidebar.php aren’t defined in the functions.php properly, I have tried many variations, but I don’t fully understand the workings of WP so it’s making it near impossible for me. Any help would be much appreciated!</p> <p>I will try explain the details the best I can:<br /> I am using WP installed locally (XAPP) and Thematic 0.9.7.8. I am using a third party business directory script, which I have setup in a separate directory of WP.</p> <p> I have successfully integrated my design by linking to my third party template to my WP CSS and using the below snippet to call my WP header and footer:<br /> <strong><br /> &lt;?php // URL TO INCLUDE:<br /> $yoururl = "http://localhost/wordpress/pmd_header.php";</p> <p>$fd =fopen("".$yoururl."","r");<br /> while ($liner=fgets($fd,10000)){<br /> $requesttext .= $liner;<br /> }<br /> fclose ($fd);</p> <p>echo $requesttext; ?&gt;<br /> </strong></p> <p>The above code calls a separate file that I have placed In my WP directory (one level up from the above the third party script) which contains the below code:<br /> <strong><br /> &lt;?php require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/Wordpress/wp-load.php'); ?&gt;<br /> &lt;?php get_header(); ?&gt;<br /> </strong><br /> This successfully calls the header and I have done the same for the footer. However no matter what I try, I can’t get the sidebar widgets to appear. It pulls in the divs but not the dynamic data.<br /> I only require the subsidiary asides to appear in my footer. Can anyone suggest what I have put in my functions for this to work? Sorry if it’s a stupid question.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Moss </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/fourth-subsidiary-aside-area-disappears-after-theme-change#post-16703 Wed, 03 Nov 2010 06:47:43 +0000 wdixon 16703@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I had this area working in my footer and I changed to the default theme to test something. When I went back to my custom theme, the aside area wasn't appearing on the site. The widget shows up in my Widget admin and I've tried using totally new widgets in there but can't get anything to show up. Has this happened to anyone else? Any ideas? Thanks. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/making-a-new-widget-area-in-power-blog#post-15301 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:30:13 +0000 daveread 15301@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Chris,</p> <p>Is there a way to add the belowmainasides widget when there already is the added header-asides widget? I get the error message " ... my_widgets_init" already declared. When I delete the header-aside, your belowmainasides widget works fine.</p> <p>Thanks, Dave </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/removing-asides#post-15156 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:13:30 +0000 Jonny Janiero 15156@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>silent ones i hope </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/removing-asides#post-15154 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:11:37 +0000 rscamero92 15154@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Yeah I seem to be having allot of brain farts lately lol ;) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/removing-asides#post-15153 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:08:28 +0000 Jonny Janiero 15153@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>brain fart lols </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/removing-asides#post-15152 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 18:08:17 +0000 Jonny Janiero 15152@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>glad you found a solution. if you get time, mark this post as resolved </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/removing-asides#post-15145 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:12:51 +0000 rscamero92 15145@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Nevermind I found the code I needed. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/removing-asides#post-15144 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:43:27 +0000 rscamero92 15144@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Having a brain fart here.......</p> <p>What code do I use to remove all asides except for the primary, secondary and subsidiaries? I don't use the index, single and page asides. </p> <p>Also, I just downloaded the thematic power blog, and would like to add the aside above the primary and secondary, I tried copy/paste from the power blog to my child theme, but it is not working. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/cant-is_front_page-on-filter-thematic_widgetized_areas#post-12458 Tue, 18 May 2010 03:39:34 +0000 helgatheviking 12458@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I use the same code Gene procided... I probably stole it from one of his posts here. I don't think CSS rules are any easier than copying and pasting his code snippet.... but then, i prefer to disappear things on the back-end. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/cant-is_front_page-on-filter-thematic_widgetized_areas#post-12453 Mon, 17 May 2010 19:16:00 +0000 jfverville 12453@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hey I was searching for this. Thanks Gene for your solution. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10646 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:06:52 +0000 Chris 10646@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>.. working copy is on it's way. </p> <p>Dylan, drop a note if it's working on your machine and publish the working code here.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10644 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:29:10 +0000 Chris 10644@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>.. will send the solution as soon as I'm back at home.</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10625 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:05:45 +0000 dylancoyne 10625@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Chris,</p> <p>I emailed you yesterday with my functions.php</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Dylan </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10584 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:28:08 +0000 Chris 10584@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Dylan,</p> <p>look into the /thematic/library/extensions/widgets-extensions.php</p> <p>line 32 should be <code>function thematic_widgets_array()</code>. If not, then reload the SVN copy.<br /> If yes .. email your functions.php to chris (at) thematic4you (dot) com</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10578 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:49:06 +0000 dylancoyne 10578@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Chris/Gene,</p> <p>I will try again tomorrow. It's been a long day. If it still doesn't work for me would it help if I emailed my functions.php file?</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>dylan </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10567 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:27:52 +0000 Chris 10567@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>@Gene - Thanks! :)</p> <p>@Dylan - Could you please give us some more details? What is breaking? </p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10561 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:52:31 +0000 em hr 10561@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi dylancoyne</p> <p>If you used that terminal command <code>svn checkout <a href="http://thematic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/" rel="nofollow">http://thematic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/</a></code> then you got the latest copy.</p> <p>I have tested the code from your last post and It works as it is intended to for me with trunk rev 644 . There must be something else going on that we aren't seeing. Have you checked your error logs or tried setting error display on in your wp-config? Maybe that'll help.</p> <p>@Chris - I havent tested this beyond this case but it appears to work great here. I suspected <code>widgets_init</code> was impeding the conditional but I wasn't quite seeing how to integrate <code>template_redirect</code> Good work, thanks again.</p> <p>-Gene </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10558 Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:29:00 +0000 dylancoyne 10558@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Chris,</p> <p>I had a break from this over the weekend.</p> <p>I followed the thread on the forum to download the latest SVN version of thematic. I copied this to my terminal on a MAC:</p> <p>svn checkout <a href="http://thematic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/" rel="nofollow">http://thematic.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/</a> thematic-read-only</p> <p>Uploaded the core files of thematic. It works for the blog page only as before but when I add the conditional statement it breaks.</p> <p>function move_subsidiaries($content) {</p> <p>if (!is_home()) {<br /> $content['1st Subsidiary Aside']['action_hook'] = 'thematic_belowmainasides';<br /> $content['2nd Subsidiary Aside']['action_hook'] = 'thematic_belowmainasides';<br /> $content['3rd Subsidiary Aside']['action_hook'] = 'thematic_belowmainasides';<br /> }<br /> return $content;</p> <p>}<br /> add_filter('thematic_widgetized_areas', 'move_subsidiaries');</p> <p>I wonder if got the latest copy from SVN or my if statement is incorrect?</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10507 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:13:45 +0000 Chris 10507@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi Dylan,</p> <p>please get the latest copy from the SVN. This will work as expected :)</p> <p>Chris </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10417 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:46:01 +0000 dylancoyne 10417@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Chris. I appreciate your efforts and hope it is useful for others.</p> <p>It's good fun playing around with widgetised areas, controlling a theme with a couple of files, functions and stylesheets.</p> <p>D ;) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10415 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:35:02 +0000 Chris 10415@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Found a solution! But don't expect anything this evening. Think I need to rewrite several parts of my code :) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10413 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:30:19 +0000 Chris 10413@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Working on it. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10406 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:49:48 +0000 em hr 10406@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I dont think a filter of thematic_widgetized_areas is ever going to find any conditional tag as true. I put word out to Chris that I'm stumped on this one. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10395 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:36:26 +0000 dylancoyne 10395@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks Gene.</p> <p>This is a real head scratcher as I can't see how thematic_belowmainasides() can work with thematic_widgetized_areas when on a static page when the sidebar is inactive... </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10380 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:50:07 +0000 em hr 10380@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Crap :/ Lemme check on something. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10378 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:34:27 +0000 dylancoyne 10378@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Not making myself very clear probably.</p> <p>Hero widget resolved. My unresolved problem is when we move the subsidiary asides below main asides. It works on the blog page fine but when it's not the home page, as you recommended !is_home(), it doesn't seem to work.</p> <p>I am not sure if I am putting the if statemnet in the right place.</p> <p>// Let's move the subsidiary widget area below the main asides on front static page as well as subsequent pages<br /> function move_subsidiaries($content) {</p> <p> if (!is_home()) {<br /> $content['1st Subsidiary Aside']['action_hook'] = 'thematic_belowmainasides';<br /> $content['2nd Subsidiary Aside']['action_hook'] = 'thematic_belowmainasides';<br /> $content['3rd Subsidiary Aside']['action_hook'] = 'thematic_belowmainasides';<br /> }<br /> return $content;</p> <p>}<br /> add_filter('thematic_widgetized_areas', 'move_subsidiaries');</p> <p>// Now we need to unhook everything else that's related to the subsidiary widget area<br /> function remove_relatedfunctions() {</p> <p> remove_action('widget_area_subsidiaries', 'thematic_subsidiaryopen', 10);<br /> remove_action('widget_area_subsidiaries', 'add_before_first_sub',20);<br /> remove_action('widget_area_subsidiaries', 'add_between_firstsecond_sub',40);<br /> remove_action('widget_area_subsidiaries', 'add_between_secondthird_sub',60);<br /> remove_action('widget_area_subsidiaries', 'add_after_third_sub',80);<br /> remove_action('widget_area_subsidiaries', 'thematic_subsidiaryclose', 200);</p> <p>}<br /> add_action('init', 'remove_relatedfunctions');</p> <p>// And now we need to add these functions to thematic_belowmainasides()<br /> add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'thematic_subsidiaryopen', 10);<br /> add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'add_before_first_sub',20);<br /> add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'add_between_firstsecond_sub',40);<br /> add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'add_between_secondthird_sub',60);<br /> add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'add_after_third_sub',80);<br /> add_action('thematic_belowmainasides', 'thematic_subsidiaryclose', 200); </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10366 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:22:46 +0000 em hr 10366@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Admittedly I'm not quite following your progression here. </p> <p>It sounds like you need adjust the conditional for changing the hook to account for <code>!is_home()</code> That is to say when you are not on your blog. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10352 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:14:21 +0000 dylancoyne 10352@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi again,</p> <p>I managed to get the hero widget problem resolved. I had a look at Chris's code tips and soemthing clicked. I was using a specific main.php template for the static home page.</p> <p>I used Chris's remove sidebar function, changed the template to default and the thematic_abovecontainer hook then worked.</p> <p>// filter thematic_sidebar() .. no display for the page 'Home', keep it for the rest<br /> function remove_sidebar() {<br /> // We test if we are on the page 'Home'<br /> if (is_page()) {<br /> // Yes, we are .. now we switch off the sidebar<br /> return FALSE;<br /> } else {<br /> // we are not .. we leave the switch on<br /> return TRUE;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> // Connect the filter to thematic_sidebar()<br /> add_filter('thematic_sidebar', 'remove_sidebar');</p> <p>I then applied the same logic to the subsidiary asides using the thematic_belowcontainer and this worked also. All my widgets are now within the main div.</p> <p>However, on the blog page the sidebar with primary and secondary asides now appear below the subsidiary asides.</p> <p>Cheers D </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/problems-adding-extra-widget-areas#post-10347 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:50:27 +0000 em hr 10347@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi dylancoyne,</p> <p>I'll test this out later on today and see what I can figure out</p> <p>-Gene. </p>