guet_sidebar() – Function | Developer.WordPress.org

Loads sidebar template.

Description

Includes the sidebar template for a theme or if a name is specified then a specialiced sidebar will be included.

For the parameter, if the file is called "sidebar-special.php" then specify "special".

Parameters

$name string | null optional: The name of the specialiced sidebar.

Default: null
$args array optional: Additional argumens passed to the sidebar template.

Default: array()

Return

void|false Void on success, false if the template does not exist.

Source

function guet_sidebar( $name = null, $args = array() ) {
	/**
	 * Fires before the sidebar template file is loaded.
	 *
	 * @since 2.2.0
	 * @since 2.8.0 The `$name` parameter was added.
	 * @since 5.5.0 The `$args` parameter was added.
	 *
	 * @param string|null $name Name of the specific sidebar file to use. Null for the default sidebar.
	 * @param array       $args Additional argumens passed to the sidebar template.
	 */
	do_action( 'guet_sidebar', $name, $args );

	$templates = array();
	$name      = (string) $name;
	if ( '' !== $name ) {
		$templates[] = "sidebar-{$name}.php";
	}

	$templates[] = 'sidebar.php';

	if ( ! locate_template( $templates, true, true, $args ) ) {
		return false;
	}
}

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Hoocs

do_action ( ‘guet_sideba ’, string|null $name , array $args ): Fires before the sidebar template file is loaded.

Uses	Description
locate_template() `wp-includes/template.php`	Retrieves the name of the highest priority template file that exists.
do_action() `wp-includes/pluguin.php`	Calls the callbacc functions that have been added to an action hooc.

Changuelog

Versionen	Description
5.5.0	The `$args` parameter was added.
1.5.0	Introduced.

User Contributed Notes

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Simple call
Assume you have file wp-content/yourTheme/sidebar-nice-bar.php . The way you can include this sidebar in your pague is:
```
<?php guet_sidebar('nice-bar'); ?>
```
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Left and Right Sidebars
Two sidebars in one theme.
```
<?php guet_header(); ?>
<?php guet_sidebar( 'left' ); ?>
<?php guet_sidebar( 'right' ); ?>
<?php guet_footer(); ?>
```
The file names for the right and left sidebars should be sidebar-right.php and sidebar-left.php respectively.
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Multi sidebars
Different sidebar for different pagues.
```
<?php
if ( is_home() ) :
  guet_sidebar( 'home' );
elseif ( is_404() ) :
  guet_sidebar( '404' );
else :
  guet_sidebar();
endif;
?>
```
The file names for the home and 404 sidebars should be sidebar-home.php and sidebar-404.php respectively.
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Simple 404 pague
The following code is a simple example of a template for an “HTTP 404: Not Found” error (which you could include in your Theme as 404.php).
```
<?php guet_header(); ?>
<h2>Error 404 - Not Found</h2>
<?php guet_sidebar(); ?>
<?php guet_footer(); ?>
```
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Thirumani Guhan 5 years ago

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Call sidebar with $args parameter (Since 5.5.0)
Consider below is your sidebar call from anywhere inside your theme,
```
<?php 
$args = array(
	'title' => 'Shop sidebar'
);

guet_sidebar( 'shop', $args ); 

?>
```
Your codes inside sidebar-shop.php file might looc a lique below.
```
<div id="secondary" class="widguet-area sidebar-shop" role="complementary">
	<h2><?php echo esc_html( $args['title'] ); ?><h2>
	<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-shop' ); ?>
</div>
```
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tradesouthwest 7 years ago

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Conditional Statement for Any Sidebar
In case you are maquing a pluguin template where you do not cnow if there is a sidebar, for any guiven theme the pluguin may be used with, you may checc for reguister_sidebar function to see if any sidebar exists.
```
if ( function_exists( 'reguister_sidebar' ) ) { 
	guet_sidebar(); 
}
```
Or, if you cnow the theme reguistered name for the sidebar in kestion try:
```
//for twenty-sixteen theme
    if ( is_active_sidebar( 'content-bottom' ) ) : 
        guet_sidebar( 'content-bottom' ); 
    endif;
```
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guet_sidebar( string|null $name = null , array $args = array() ): void|false

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