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1. actionbasic
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   On my site I have a sidebar from the blue-zinfindel theme that shows up on all pages of course. The problem is that I need to have more than one sidebar so I can show different things when you get into the site. example: the MP3 player on the right should only be on the homepage.

   www.detour-mag.com/content/

   any help would be great.

   Thanks,
   Brandon

2. cheesemasterdan
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Using Conditional Tags should get you what you want...
   Include these in your sidebar template and use, say
   if(is_home()){ stick your code here }
   if you want something just to display on the front page (though the help page seems to suggest this is handled differently in v2.1 but I haven't really looked into it)...

3. jabecker
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Conditional tags work. Or, you can do what I do. edit the general-template.php and replace get_sidebar what I've pasted in below.

   In your template, call get_sidebar with the name of your sidebar file -- for example: get_sidebar('my-sidebar'). It defaults to "sidebar" so there's no impact if you don't include the file name.

   --------

   function get_sidebar($sidebar="sidebar") {
if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/' . $sidebar . '.php') )
load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/'. $sidebar . '.php');
else
load_template( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php');
}

4. mcbuzz
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Editing the general-template.php file (in the wp-includes folder) -- replacing get_sidebar with the code offered by jabecker -- worked great for me. Thanks jabecker!!

   I noticed that the line
   do_action( 'get_sidebar' );
   is missing from what they offer. Not sure if this matters but I put it in and the function works as described.

   So you should have
   

   function get_sidebar($sidebar="sidebar") {
   	do_action( 'get_sidebar' );
   	if ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/' . $sidebar . '.php') )
   		load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/'. $sidebar . '.php');
   	else
   		load_template( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php');
   }

   This modification can do a lot of good work (I think) because you can do the same for get_header().

5. mcbuzz
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Just an update:

   It's not necessary to edit the general-template.php file.

   Just replace

   <?php get_header(); ?>

   with

   <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/whatever-header-file-you-want.php"); ?>

   and be sure to save the whatever-header-file-you-want.php file in the theme folder with all the other theme files, including the original header.php file.

   You can do the same with sidebar files.

   Just replace

   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

   with

   <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/whatever-sidebar-file-you-want.php"); ?>

   and be sure to save the whatever-sidebar-file-you-want.php file in the theme folder with all the other theme files, including the original sidebar.php file.

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