I have two unrelated (I think) questions about Word Press. I am wondering if it is possible to:
1 - Have two different sidebars, one that appears on the index page and another that appears on the single post page.
2 - Change the name of the Blogroll

Thanks!

1. Yes.. Name one Sidebar1 and the other Sidebar2 then in the index page call Sidebar1 and in the single page cal Sidebar2

2. Yes.. Go in to Manage -> Categories in your admin panel and edit the category and change the name to something else..

Thank you. I got the Blogroll renamed and created a new sidebar. One more problem, though. When I go into the second sidebar, I cannot add some widgets such as the Blogroll one, the search one, the archives one, and some others.

Any idea why?

Thanks!

You probably didn't copy the top part of the code from Sidebar1 that loads the widgets..

Make sure the sidebars have pretty much the same code..

I just duplicated the code for the first sidebar so it should be the same.

Gotta change the sidebar number in the code..

<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else : ?>

and

<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : else : ?>

Hmmm... the line in my file looks slightly different:

<?php     /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
                    if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>

I changed it to

<?php     /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
                    if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : ?>

for sidebar.php and

<?php     /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
                    if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(2) : ?>

for sidebar2.php, but that did not help, so I changed it back.

Looks like an old template code for an old version of WP to me.. If you are running 2.5 run the code I gave you.. It's what I run..

I am running 2.5 having upgraded just a little while ago. I used the automatic update plugin if that matters...

The code you had (specifying the different sidebars) is right, but there's one more step. Since your theme was already widgetized you should have a file called function.php in your theme.

By default it registers one dynamic sidebar. You need to tell it you now have 2 sidebars.

You'll see:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )

at the top of functions.php. I think all you need to do is change it to:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar(2)') )

and then use the same code you tried above.

I had some code like that in there already, but the original code was slightly different. It looked like this:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));

so I just added the new code to the end so now it looks like this:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));


if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(2);

Still, it does not let me add some widgets.

My bad about the code above. What you were trying to do was closer to being right than what I posted.

I think the issue might be due to the array and what you did above needs to be done a little differently.

What you might need to do is something more like:

PHP Code:

if (function_exists("register_sidebar")) {
  register_sidebar(Array("name" => "sidebar1"));
  register_sidebar(Array("name" => "sidebar2"));
} 


I think you might need to name both sidebars too. You don't have to call them sidebar 1 and 2 either. You should be able to name them anything you want.

Here are a couple of posts that hopefully help

Wordpress 2 Widget sidebars is a short post which is mostly the code I posted above.

WordPress Widgets is a quick tutorial on widgets. The links for themes and the API are probably the most relevant.

Thanks for the links. The second one seems very useful, but it basically just confirmed what I had already guessed. I am now using code from the examples on the second site, but I still have the same problem. (I did try the code you suggested, but it had the same result as everything else.) Here is the current code I am using:
functions.php

register_sidebars(2, array('name'=>'Sidebar %d'));

sidebar.php

<?php     /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
                    if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("Sidebar 1") ) : ?>

sidebar2.php

<?php     /* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */
                    if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("Sidebar 2") ) : ?>

I did notice one thing which might be important. (I might have already mentioned it, actually.) If I remove one of the widgets that I cannot add to sidebar 2 from sidebar 1, I am then able to add it to sidebar 2.

Thanks!

Is the idea then that you can't add the same widget to both sidebars? I think that's a very different problem. Sorry if I misunderstood.

I'm not sure why you'd want to add the same widget to two sidebars in the first place, but I'd guess the problem is it can't exist in both places at once. You probably need to make a second copy of the widget and give it a different name in order to add it to both. To the system it would be two different widgets even if they end up with the same functionality.

Yes, that seems to be the problem. Anyway, you helped me get a better idea of how the code really works.

It sounds like two copies should work, but how do I make another copy?

Thanks!

You would need to find the file or files used to create the widget you want to copy and then obviously make a copy of them with a new name.

I'm not sure where the files for the blogroll and other things you mentioned at the top are located, but if it's a widget you added later it should be in the plugins folder.

It is a built-in widget. I cannot find the file where it is. Anyone know where the default widgets are used?