why my wordpress plugin is not showing sidebar? - php

Question

i'm programming a plugin in php for wordpress for managing widgets, their places in a page and in which page they should appear. I'm having problems because i can't activate my sidebar and i dont know why. I post my code to see if something is not right and you can help me. this first file is the functions.php that, in theory, should register sidebars.
require_once('widgets.php');
function my_register_sidebars(){
// Register the 'primary' sidebar.
register_sidebar(
array(
'id' => 'primary',
'name' => __('Primary Sidebar'),
'description' => __('A short description of the sidebar.'),
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
)
);
register_sidebar(
array(
'id' => 'adios',
'name' => __('adios'),
'description' => __('A short description of the sidebar.'),
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
)
);
}
add_action('widgets_init', 'my_register_sidebars');
after a series of try-outs, I have also seen that add_action is not doing his work, do you have answers about it?
After that i instantiated a new file(sidebar.php) to recall the sidebar.
<?php
if (is_active_sidebar('primary')) : ?>
<aside id="secondary" class="sidebar widget-area" role="complementary" style="background-color = 'black';">
<?php dynamic_sidebar('primary'); ?>
</aside><!-- .sidebar .widget-area -->
<?php endif; ?>
And finally to call the sidebar i use get_sidebar();
but i cannot show the sidebar and it seems it is not even active.
do you have also ideas on how i can add widgets to this "activated" sidebar?
Thank you for your helps.

Answer 1

Use this code in your function.php
function my_custom_sidebar() {
register_sidebar(
array (
'name' => __( 'Custom', 'your-theme-domain' ),
'id' => 'custom-side-bar',
'description' => __( 'Custom Sidebar', 'your-theme-domain' ),
'before_widget' => '<div class="widget-content">',
'after_widget' => "</div>",
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>',
)
);} add_action( 'widgets_init', 'my_custom_sidebar' );
And put this code to your template file
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'custom-side-bar' ) ) : ?>
<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'custom-side-bar' ); ?>
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