Question

Whenever I edit the ‘sidebar.php’ file (in an attempt to strip out the Blogroll & Meta sections of the side bar) the entire site breaks…

<ul>

        <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
            <?php wp_list_bookmarks(); ?>
            <li><h2>Meta</h2>
            <ul>
                <?php wp_register(); ?>
                <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
                <li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
                <li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>

                <?php wp_meta(); ?>
            </ul>
            </li>

^^ That’s the bit I’m trying to strip out. Any ideas why it’s coming up as an error page every time I try?

Thanks – Tara

Answer 1

I’ve guessing the removal of this line is the problem:

<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>

You’re probably leaving the closing part of that if statement (which would a } ) on the page and it’s causing a syntax error.

You’ll either want to remove the entire if statement or just the content inside of it.

(Thanks to Emil for the edit suggestion)