Comments on: Updated: Multiple Sidebar Content in Wordpress

By: zacheos

zacheos — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:05:16 +0000

Some people use a hierarchy method in the naming of the template files to achieve multiple WordPress sidebars, but in my opinion it is too cumbersome for most user’s needs. The method of multiple sidebars for WordPress that I use involves only a very simple PHP snippet added to the template to call the desired sidebar file depending on the area of the site that you are in.

By: Jen

Jen — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:51:30 +0000

@dirtyharris:
Yes, you would use Conditional Tags. Check out this link:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
then scroll down to the section “Variable Sidebar Content.”

By: dirtyharris

dirtyharris — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:36:27 +0000

how about i want my sidebars to change contents every time i visit a category– the sidebar will contain all the posts from the category that i selected? any idea?

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:15:35 +0000

I don’t know of any specifically designed to do that. If it were something that I’d need for a site I was designing I’d probably look into using custom fields.

By: Large balloon guy

Large balloon guy — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:58:18 +0000

I am looking for a plugin that allows you to write content for the sidebar on that specific page. know any?

By: Pop Stalin

Pop Stalin — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:57:41 +0000

Mike- I'm not real sure what you're asking (sorry it took so long to reply) but below is sort of a working example. I don't want to include all the content that I used for my client so I hope this makes sense to you. One thing you need to make sure of is that there are no spaces in the final code.

< ! -- SIDEBAR ABOUT PAGE -- >
< ?php if (is_page(about)) { ?>
< h2 >Some Title< /h2 >
< p >Some text< /p >
< ?php } ?>
< ! -- SIDEBAR BLOG -- >
< ?php if (is_home()) { ?>
< p >Some intro text< /p >
< br / >
< ?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
< ! -- BLOG ROLL -- >
< ul >
< ?php wp_list_bookmarks('categorize=1&category=2&before=
&after=&show_images=0&show_description=0&orderby=name'); ?>
< /ul >
< ?php } ?>

By: mike

mike — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:06:52 +0000

hi i tried this but it it didn’t work as planned. can you show me how that code works in the context of the rest of your sidebar? thanks!

By: jameswillisisthebest

jameswillisisthebest — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:37:49 +0000

This is my first post
just saying HI

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:17:09 +0000

Thanks for this. I recently added the top commentators plugin and want to display it only on the homepage but can’t seem to get this to work. I added it just as you have it.

Is there something else that needs to be added inside the sidebar file that makes this work?

Does this have to be there:

By: beth

beth — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:04:53 +0000

This will be a nice way to consolidate my sidebar files, thanks!