Comments on: Showing different sidebar on different pages

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:19:33 +0000

For a codeless approach, you might try my Graceful Sidebar Plugin. This plugin enables you to customize the content of your sidebar for each page or post. Simply create two custom fields in your page or post called “graceful_title” and “graceful_content” and drag the widget to your theme’s sidebar.

Enjoy!

By: Weptile

Weptile — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 11:00:22 +0000

@lily: did you change the page template from the admin panel? Your new about page should be a new template. Here are steps:
1. Create a new page template (something like about-page.php and check google on how to)
2. Create new sidebar php for that page (as explained above)
3. Go to admin and edit the about page and change page template to be your new about-page template.
That should do it. If not, you might be missing something in these steps.

By: lily

lily — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:21:45 +0000

Can someone help me? This didn’t work for me. I want to have a custom sidebar for my about page, and I created a new php file for the about page as well as a new unique php for the sidebar (sidebar2.php)…. but it’s not changing, the main sidebar is still showing up.
help please!

By: Rizwan

Rizwan — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:45:56 +0000

Thank you ! I was looking for this

By: HelloNingbo

HelloNingbo — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:12:50 +0000

Nice and interesting topic!
I wished we could have developed the subject a bit more…

By: Weptile

Weptile — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 09:10:33 +0000

@cole, well yo uare right cole but if yo do that, that means you basically are adding load time to the site. Shorter the files to load is better.
But on the other hand, not every site is harmed by few lines of code you might add to a file. It depends if it’s worth it
Do you have some example of this “magic” you are talking about?

By: cole

cole — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:59:05 +0000

The only problem with this, it’s kinda crazy to create a different template for every sidebar. I did it this way for a while and wound up with a dozen or so extra files in my WP theme folder. It sucked. Better to use some if/then magic in your sidebar or page.php

By: Ufuk Erdogmus

Ufuk Erdogmus — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:26:50 +0000

For the ones who are confused:
1. You create a new page template (check google)
2. In your new page template php, you do these changes mentioned here.
3. Select your new template on the pages you want to have your new sidebar
I think that should answer you

By: junthit

junthit — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:15:34 +0000

What next? confuse……….

By: joanne

joanne — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:09:18 +0000

thanks for this tips! was really useful as i was configuring a website for my client