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Nick Hooper
7,188 PointsTrouble with dynamic sidebars in wordpress
Hi, I am trying to make a dynamic sidebar in wordpress a little more dynamic by automatically selecting which sidebar it uses from funtions.php depending on what the title of a page is.
When I use something like this it works just fine to display a single static sidebar.
dynamic_sidebar('blog')
I have another sidebar called "test" that works when I replace "blog" with "test".
Now I want to use this code below. "the_title" returns with the post title in this case "test", but it doesn't seem to work.
dynamic_sidebar(the_title)
the_title does work and I have tested in other situations such as in an alt attribute of an image and it gives the correct value.
What am I doing wrong?
1 Answer
Nick Hooper
7,188 PointsI figured it out after reading the codex a bit.
I had to use get_the_title() instead.