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WP Sidebars allows you to generated dynamic sidebars (widget areas) on-the-fly. Quickly generate sidebars for your site. Use the sidebar selector on the page edit screen to select a sidebar for any page. Custom post types are supported.

Usage

1. Create a sidebar
2. Add widgets to the sidebar
3. In your templates, use ai_dynamic_sidebar in place of dynamic_sidebar
4. Configure options in Settings > Sidebars

Function Reference

ai_dynamic_sidebar

takes two optional parameters:

1. $sidebar_id. Provide an ID to a specific sidebar. The default is NULL
2. $location. Provide a sidebar location, either: left, right, footer. The default is 'left'

To display sidebars dynamically based on the selection for the given page, pass NULL to $sidebar_id.

You can also check if a given location has any sidebars. Use ai_has_sidebar and pass in the either 'left', 'right', or 'footer'. Returns TRUE if given location has sidebars, FALSE if no sidebars.