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My function in jQuery shows a text in front of the output even though the function self already works

I came up with an solution for not showing an sidebar in Wordpress when this is not filled with widgets. I did this by calling for the slug from the current page and named my sidebars the same as the slugs from my pages.

Thanks to some help I get this thing working but the problem is I see the name of the slug appears in front of the sidebar. For an image example Click here. For the live example Click here.

My current code is:

<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( the_slug() ) ) { ?>
    <ul id="sidebar">
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
    </ul>
<?php } else { ?>
    //empty
<?php } ?>

What goes wrong that causes this problem? Would be great to see the slug text disappear. Thanks already!

Solution

  • By default, the_slug() outputs the value of the slug (via echo), as well as returning it.

    Simply pass false (the_slug(false)), so that the value is only returned and not echo'd.