Magazine Pro: Alt-Sidebar Not Appearing

[ithacaindy]

I'm stumped why the secondary-sidebar won't appear on my live site, but it does appear on my dev site. The dev site has the same plugins activated and there's no problem getting the secondary-sidebar to show. When I activate Magazine Pro on my live site, however, the secondary-sidebar doesn't appear.

I've double checked to make sure the content-sidebar-sidebar default display is selected. I've tried sidebar-sidebar-content just to be sure - no go. I've cleared the browser cache and the site cache. When I try the live preview of Magazine Pro, both sidebars of the theme do appear. But once I activate the theme, the secondary-sidebar doesn't appear and the secondary-sidebar isn't listed when I view the page's HTML source.

Any clues?

http://ithacaindy.org and ithacaindy.com

[AnitaC]

Using Firefox, I am able to edit the HTML and type something in there. So it's there. What type of content do you have in that widget area.

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[ithacaindy]

The secondary sidebar has only a widget which lists the recent posts. I'm using Firefox/firebug and the secondary sidebar appears neither in the HTML code nor the page output.

The secondary-sidebar problem seems limited to the Magazine Pro child theme. I switched the live theme to Eleven40 Pro and both sidebars appear. I switch back to MP and only the main sidebar appears.

[AnitaC]

I see the secondary sidebar on here ithacaindy.com with Recent Posts. Now I don't see the Primary Sidebar. Do you have something in there? Somehow that code doesn't look right. If you have any content in your widget areas using DIVs, make sure they are closed.

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[ithacaindy]

The sidebar appears fine on my dev server -- ithacaindy.com. The problem is with my live server -- ithacaindy.org --which because it is live has a different theme running most times. However, when I switch to Mag Pro, the secondary sidebar never appears. The secondary sidebar will appear in the "live" theme preview, but not after the theme is activated. When Mag Pro is activated it is running the stock child theme with no modifications.

[AnitaC]

This is what I see in Firefox - http://awesomescreenshot.com/0721ww1n30. I see the Content area - the blank area in the middle is where the Primary Sidebar goes and the last column is the Secondary Sidebar.

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[ithacaindy]

Yep. That is the dev site - which works fine. On the live site with the exact same theme, the exact same plugins and the exact same widgets, the secondary sidebar does not appear nor does it show in the HTML source - meaning it is not even generated. I can switch to another child theme and the secondary sidebar of that theme appears.

[AnitaC]

Where is the LIVE site so I can take a look?

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[ithacaindy]

ithacaindy.org. The Mag Pro theme will be online until noon eastern so you can check it out.

[ithacaindy]

Interesting. The secondary sidebar appears on the single post page, but not the home page.

[ithacaindy]

I fixed it. the .frontpage file was forcing the content-sidebar layout. I commented that out and the secondary sidebar appears.

[AnitaC]

The home page needs to be configured for content-sidebar-sidebar. It's currently set to content-sidebar. If you want to "force the layout" of the home page copy this into your Functions.php file:

//* Force content-sidebar-sidebar layout setting
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar_sidebar' );

At the end of the line make sure there is an - ;

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[AnitaC]

Don't use my code, it's broken. This dang thing strips code. Go here - http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/admin-management/. The first section is Force Layout Settings. Look for content-sidebar-sidebar. You don't need the entire box.

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[AnitaC]

Ok, I got the code to work correctly now -

//* Force content-sidebar-sidebar layout setting
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_content_sidebar_sidebar' );

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[AnitaC]

Glad you got it working.

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