So I’m trying to not show a side bar if it there are no widgets to show
when I use the is_active_sidebar() function it always returns false and the if statement doesn’t work and when I try to use the is_dynamic_sidebar() function it always returns true.
I have the widget logic plugin installed so some of the widgets show up on a page and some pages don’t have a widget.
This is my code:
<div class="row main-row">
<?php if (is_dynamic_sidebar('left_bar')) { ?>
<div class="col-md-3 left-sidebar">
<?php
dynamic_sidebar('left_bar');
?>
</div>
<div class="col-md-9 main-content">
<?php the_content('Read More'); ?>
</div>
<?php } else { ?>
<div class="col-md-12 main-content">
<?php the_content('Read More'); ?>
</div>
<?php } ?>
</div>
Any Ideas on what should I do?
You have used wrong function for checking active sidebar try this
try this one, it is different way of using sidebar
[1] put your all “left_bar”(sidebar) code in a new file named “sidebar-left_bar”
[2] save it with header.php, function.php and all files
[3] now just use
<?php get_sidebar( 'left_bar' ); ?>where you want to useThanks