Why do widgets get automatically added to a widget area? WordPress
Hello and thanks for the help.
I just built a comercial theme and whenever I run a clean WP install, upload and activate it I get a series of widgets that get automatically added to my front page sidebar(Search, Recent Posts, Recent Comments, Archives, Categories, and Meta).
Here's the code for the widget area:
<aside id="sidebar" class="col span_4 clr">
<?php if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Frontpage Sidebar')) : else : ?>
<h1>Frontpage Widgets</h1>
<p>There are several custom widgets that were specifically built for this area. Please see documentation for instructions.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
</aside><!-- sidebar -->
And here's the code from the functions file:
if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => 'Frontpage Sidebar',
'description' => 'This widget area appears to the right of the slider on the front page.',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div><!-- widget_entry --></div><!-- widget -->',
'before_title' => '<h1>',
'after_title' => '</h1><div class="widget_entry">'
));
}
I don't agree with widget being added automatically so I need prevent them from appearing during the install as it breaks the layout.
Regards,
Denis
Answers (7)
Michael Caputo answers:
Try:
<?php if (dynamic_sidebar('Frontpage Sidebar')) ; ?>
Denis Leblanc comments:
Thanks Micheal,
Would I use this on the front page or when registering the widget area in the functions file/
d.
Michael Caputo comments:
Wherever your widget area should go. So your code should be:
<aside id="sidebar" class="col span_4 clr">
<?php if (dynamic_sidebar('Frontpage Sidebar')) : else : ?>
<h1>Frontpage Widgets</h1>
<p>There are several custom widgets that were specifically built for this area. Please see documentation for instructions.</p>
<?php endif; ?>
</aside><!-- sidebar -->
Denis Leblanc comments:
Micheal,
Tried the code you provided, dropped everything in my database and ran the install again. Same thing happened, just loaded a bunch of widgets automatically.
Do you think those widgets might be getting loaded from the default Twenty Eleven theme?
d.
Michael Caputo comments:
Disregard my previous posts - I misunderstood your question.
To my knowledge, the widgets are automatically added when you install your site. You'd need a modified version of Wordpress to disable this function.
My suggestion would be to try grabbing this copy of Wordpress: http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.4.1-no-content.zip
And adding your own wp-content folder.
I dont know for sure, but the "no-content" build of wordpress may not contain these widgets.
Again: I haven't tested this but it's worth a shot.
Denis Leblanc comments:
That's what I figured. I'll be reselling this theme so I can't start telling my customers to install a particular version of WP without content so I was hoping for some kind of function that would disable those widgets upon theme activation or something of the sort.
Thanks for your help.
d.
Jatin Soni answers:
I believe you are not calling this widget on front page and it got different widget. Check in Dashboard -> widget if you can find same widgets anywhere than see or check your front page with something code like <?php get_sidebar(); ?> and check which sidebar has been set there.
Denis Leblanc comments:
Jatin,
I'm positive that I'm loading the proper sidebar on the front page(see attached screenshot), and the code is as mentioned above.
d.