Register Widget Area

[Paul]

I’m trying to register a new widget ‘Header Profile’ to insert the Buddyboss Profile widget into. I’ve added this to functions:

// Register header profile Widget

if (function_exists(‘register_sidebar’)) {
register_sidebar(array(
‘name’ => ‘Header Profile’,
‘id’ => ‘header-profile’,
‘description’ => ‘Header Profile’,
‘before_widget’ => ‘<div id=”one” class=”two”>’,
‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’,
‘before_title’ => ‘<h2>’,
‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>’
));
}

And this to header:

<!– Show logged-in Profile Widget –>
<?php get_sidebar( ‘Header Profile’ ); ?>

Dropped the Buddyboss Profile widget into the new area in admin, but on the front-end I end up with Categories and Recent Comments as though they’re the widgets I selected?

What have I got wrong?

Thanks,
Paul.

[Alyssa]

@style960 you should read the WP codex here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_sidebar

Specifically the order of which files are called.

TL;DR by default sidebar.php is called and uses the default sidebar. Create your own sidebar-header-profile.php file and copy the template from sidebar-bbpress.php and change the displayed sidebar.