I will go with Child themes functions.php for registering specific sidebar for a child theme.
It will be more flexible and specific to the child theme.
What issues you encounter while using child theme’s functions.php.
Hi Brajesh,
When i regsiter sidebars in the child theme, it tends to break the layout of the site – when i add the additional side bars to the parent the display is correct. It might just be that i haven’t fully completed the theme.
I will play around some more and revert once i have tested it some more. Thanks for the reply.
After further testing – i think my issue was some of the sidebars where coming from the parent and the additional ones from the child.
I duplicated the sideabars from the parent and everything appears to be displaying as it should.
Never really understood the child/parent relationship until last night – and its an amazing way to build themes.
That’s right. so you know the reason now and the best thing is you know how much useful this child theme could be.
You can unregister the sidebars from parent which you don’t want to use in the child, but I don’t remember exactly will it work in current wp or not, earlier version was having some issue when you try to unregister a parent theme widget area from child theme.
Hi Brajesh.
Interesting as i did not “unregister” the sidebars so to speak as they are still being used. – i just duplicated them in the Child and add the addtional ones in the child function.php as well.
I think as the theme i am building develops – i will unregister them as needed.
