Comments on: How to have multiple widgetized different sidebars

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:46:16 +0000

I just end up with two of the same default sidebars, one atop the other..

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 06:03:52 +0000

Hi Vikky,
1 > Yes!
2 > Get an idea from here – http://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/if-page-is-parent-or-child/
With a basic knowledge of code you can make it to work with n level deep subpages too
3 > You can change the sidebar calls to sidebar calls embedded inside conditions as per your case.

By: Vikky

Vikky — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:27:10 +0000

Hi,

Thank for such a helpful post. I do have a few questions though.
(1) I assume that is_page can replace the is_category, if I want a custom sidebar for my pages. Is that right?

(2) Can the is_page work for subpages too? If not, how should I treat subpages so that they too have the same sidebar as their parent pages?

(3) My current them has two sidebars: the left one is names sidebar.php, and the right is right_sidebar.php. On my home page, these are accessed with

I would like to have variations of the right_sidebar.php for specific pages, as in right_sidebar-athletics.php. How should the code be written?

Thank you so much for your help in advance.

Vikky

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:58:55 +0000

Step 3: Copy the code given in the post and paste where the sidebar is called in your regular wordpress files (index.php, single.php etc)

That’s it!

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:57:39 +0000

The dates are now shown again with the new theme. Sorry for replying so late.

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:00:30 +0000

Could you please specify the tutorial in steps?

Lets say, i would like to have have different sidebars in each category.

For example:

Step 1: create differtent sidebars php: sidebar1.php, sidepar2.php
Step 2: upload the files in /themes/…
Step 3: etc. etc.

Thanks in advance

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:36:59 +0000

When was this posted? It’s handy to have dates on your blogs so we can know whether the content still applies.