Hi Everyone,
First of all I have to say Thematic is great! I am a designer/newbie to developing and I have learned a lot from reading the documentation and forums. I have successfully wrapped my WP header and footer design around a third party business directory script. However I have hit a brick wall.
In short:
The problem is that I can’t get the sidebar asides/widgets to display, I believe the hooks in my sidebar.php aren’t defined in the functions.php properly, I have tried many variations, but I don’t fully understand the workings of WP so it’s making it near impossible for me. Any help would be much appreciated!
I will try explain the details the best I can:
I am using WP installed locally (XAPP) and Thematic 0.9.7.8. I am using a third party business directory script, which I have setup in a separate directory of WP.
I have successfully integrated my design by linking to my third party template to my WP CSS and using the below snippet to call my WP header and footer:
<?php // URL TO INCLUDE:
$yoururl = "http://localhost/wordpress/pmd_header.php";
$fd =fopen("".$yoururl."","r");
while ($liner=fgets($fd,10000)){
$requesttext .= $liner;
}
fclose ($fd);
echo $requesttext; ?>
The above code calls a separate file that I have placed In my WP directory (one level up from the above the third party script) which contains the below code:
<?php require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].'/Wordpress/wp-load.php'); ?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
This successfully calls the header and I have done the same for the footer. However no matter what I try, I can’t get the sidebar widgets to appear. It pulls in the divs but not the dynamic data.
I only require the subsidiary asides to appear in my footer. Can anyone suggest what I have put in my functions for this to work? Sorry if it’s a stupid question.
Thanks,
Moss