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Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by James Smith

James Smith — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:25:23 +0000

Hi, this looks like just what I want — except that I can’t get it to work. I have installed the sidebar generator (version 1.1.0). I can generate sidebar names… I can add content to them…. then I edit a page, and in the “Sidebars” option I request that it replace “Sidebar 1″ (Using the Thesis theme), with a generated sidebar. I save everything, refresh the browser, and…. nothing changes.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
jan Smith

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by Vincent Garguilo

Vincent Garguilo — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:09:49 +0000

The method you had before was great.
What sidebar would you like to use: [Choose from the available sidebars]
Done.

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by Kat

Kat — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:03:37 +0000

For the mentioned website I switched back to the previous version and now it is working again.

But I have a different website with multiple sidebars and it really would be cool if it would work. But it’s just not working. How did you get it to work with your websites? I tried it now with two different themes and two different wordpress versions (2.8.6 and 3.9.1 – both german). It’s not working.

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by admin

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:31:01 +0000

the plugin should ‘activate’ regardless of your theme. Usually the ‘dynamic_sidebar()’ code is in a sidebar.php file. Not all themes use sidebars, if this is the case, you’ll have to add that, or switch themes to use this plugin.

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by admin

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:29:17 +0000

Its purpose is to replace your existing sidebars with new generated ones. So if you have an ‘about’ sidebar, and you want to generate a new one, in place of it, you would select ‘about’ as the one you will be replacing, and your new generated sidebar as what you’d want to replace it with. In the next release, I will try to come up with a clear-er method of explaining this. Any suggestions are welcome.

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by admin

admin — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:26:45 +0000

I am sorry this has caused some additional effort. It sounds like you are using it correctly. I am not sure why it is not working. It works on my 3 test sites, and this site (getson.info). I also have quite a few other poeple using it without issue. If you don’t need support for multiple sidebars, you will see no benefit in upgrading.

hope that helps.

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by Susan Martin

Susan Martin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:13:39 +0000

I installed the sidebar generator on the temporary url I am migrating my site to, and have a custom thesis theme. I can’t find the dynamic_sidebar() file anywhere, so the plug in doesn’t activate. What can I do to make it work?

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by Vincent Garguilo

Vincent Garguilo — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:35:19 +0000

I appreciate you taking people’s desires into account but after i auto-upgraded everything was broken, which you warned me of, so i went to a specific page to fix it but i just get that bizarre replace thing. This doesnt make any sense.

Each page only has 1 sidebar yet on a page it says “Select the sidebar you wish to display on this page, and which sidebar it will replace. (leave unselected to use the default sidebar everywhere)”. This only makes sense if there was 1 selection here and if there was some kind of Submit button to make something happen. What i have is 5 sidebars choices and 5 replace choices on a single page. I cant figure out what you mean by this set up. No matter what i do it does nothing.

Replace ABOUT with ABOUT
Replace MY CURSE wit MY CURSE
etc…

making selections does nothing.
I dont get it.

I am reverting back to the old plugin until this is explained or fixed.

Thank you!

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by Kat

Kat — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:29:12 +0000

The previous version of the plugin worked fine for me. I updated to the newest one (1.1) and it doesn’t work anymore (I use wordpress 2.9.1 german). The sidebars are still there (widgets section), but I just can’t get them to display on any page – although I assigned them new to different pages. Just the standard sidebar shows. Logically the following should work:
“Replace WP Default Sidebar with Home” (Home is my “other” sidebar I’d like to display)
But it doesn’t. I even selected all five pulldowns – also not working. Am I doing something wrong with the assigning of the sidebar?!?
I also tried “Replace Sidebar with Home” – as the WP Default Sidebar is called “Sidebar”. Still not working.

By the way, the custom field “sbg_selected_sidebar” (which was automatically created by the previous version of the plugin) disappeared after editing and saving the page. And no new field was added. ?!?

Of course I can switch back to the previous plugins version, but maybe you have a solution?!? As it is working with your website I don’t understand why it doesnt’t work with mine. By the way, I’m using the “Freshy 2″ theme (http://www.jide.fr/). Maybe that’s the problem?!?

Thanx for your help!

Comment on Sidebar Generator Version 1.1 by admin

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:16:46 +0000

Im sorry this has caused a problem. You can revert back the previous version here http://getson.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/sidebar-generator.zip. I will put a note on the plugin to let others know that this new version is only really needed for those who use a theme with multiple sidebars.