Comments on: Adding multiple sidebars (and other elements) to your wordpress theme

By: Eric Lightbody

Eric Lightbody — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:28:27 +0000

Thanks fo the info! I’ll check it out tonight and update this post if it works well.

By: marquex

marquex — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:48:05 +0000

There is a new wordpress plugin that allows to have multiple sidebars without writting any code, it’s called Custom Sidebars, and in few clicks you can create, widgetize, and set sidebars up.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-sidebars/

Cheers!

By: cole

cole — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:55:14 +0000

Great post. I have to do something very similar to use different widgetized sidebars on the different sections of my site. As my understanding of WP and PHP grows, I’ve streamlined the code a bit but I wish there were a plugin to do this so I didn’t have such a big chunk of code on my page.php (I only use special sidebars on my pages).

By: abbe

abbe — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:11:15 +0000

Is it possible to get a have a custom navigationbar depending on what page you are? Using wp-concept

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:35:15 +0000

Hey Eric, this is a great post first off. I wrote something similar, but this is much more versatile with the multiple instances of widgets, and coding, etc.

Anyways, I’ve gotten it to work nicely on a client’s site, but it does not seem to work when using a sub-sub page. The grandchild pages so-to-speak. Any idea why?

By: elightbo

elightbo — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:02:38 +0000

Happy I could help!

By: Lisa Heili

Lisa Heili — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:04:17 +0000

The issue of getting different sidebars to appear on different pages is one that I have been looking for a solution to. Thanks!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:24:24 +0000

Might want to add an else statement to the end of the code in the sidebar.php, so there is a default state, so you don’t have to program a custom sidebar for each and every page. This worked for me:

else {
if(!function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) { $generic_sidebar = true; }
}

- ryan

By: Dave White

Dave White — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:19:15 +0000

Hello, thanks for the tutorial. I get my sidebars to show in the admin, but they don’t show on the pages. I’m new to wordpress so this may be a silly question… but does this method work with 2.8+?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:11:22 +0000

This trick is awesome! I got it to work on all of my pages except for my blog page…any ideas?