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I am using the standard BuddyPress home and member themes and wanted to assign default sidebar widgets. I am able to assign sidebar widgets to the left, center and right sidebars using a new file I called sidebarwidgets.php in the wp-content/mu-plugins directory. The code for in sidebarwidgets.php is:

<?php

function new_blogs_setting( $blog_id ) {

add_option( ‘widget_categories’,

array( ‘title’ => ‘My Categories’ ));

add_option(“sidebars_widgets”,

array(“sidebar-1” => array(“recent-posts”),

“sidebar-2” => array(“categories”, “tag_cloud”),

“sidebar-3” => array(“pages”, “links”)));

}

add_action(‘populate_options’, ‘new_blogs_setting’);

?>

This works great and the setting is applied to all NEW blogs created after uploading sidebarwidgets.php. However, I can’t figure out how to create a default setting for the blog sidebar (sidebar-4). When I put in code with a similar syntax it causes the whole site to white screen. In the interim, users see a message asking them to add a widget to the blog sidebar, so they would have to add that manually.

I am no programmer, so I am hoping someone wiser than I might be able to point me in the right direction. Thanks!