May 15, 2018
Hey Developer,
If you are just starting out with WordPress and you want to create your own theme, you may have ran into this same problem that I did. All I wanted to do is register my first sidebar in functions.php. I went on to look at the
official documentation and I missed a very important piece of the puzzle.
I just copied and pasted the code and modified some of the parameters such as id but I failed to realize that I should not use uppercase letters. Afterwards, I spent hours trying to figure out why my sidebar was not working and I am hoping to help you avoid the same problem.