sidebar in wordpress

4 comments

1. Place some form of hook on different pages.

   Open sidebar.php in your themes and check for presence of hook.

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2. You should create files like sidebar-xxxx.php and include it, using get_sidebar(xxxx) in the different templates and souhld register them on the functions.php. If you do not wanna create these files you can register the sidebars on functions.php and in the sidebar.php use:

   global $wp_query;
   $page_name = $wp_query->post->post_name;
   <ul>
   <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-'.$page_name) ) : ?>
   <?php endif; ?>
   </ul>
   

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3. create a new sidebar

   and you can link them inc with is page

   if(is_page(5)) {
    include('new-sidebar.php')
   }
   

   is page id is 5 lets say thats the id for your home page

   just check the ids of your pages and seperate them

   if you want them tho show in the page childs to

   just write

    if(is_page(5) || $post->post_parent) {
        include('new-sidebar.php')
       }
   

   zou can even write a function either

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4. For different sidebars, i thing you have to do is to create the sidebar which you want as many as you want and save those sidebars as sidebar1.php, sidebar2.php and so on.

   And,just include it in the different pages where you want it to display like this:

   <?php include('sidebar1.php'); ?> 
   

   And, like wise for other sidebars of other pages.

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