Posted 1 year ago #
I've just installed Wordpress, and all is going well so far, except that I need one small piece of functionality I can't seem to find.
All posts on my site are arranged into their appropriate categories. I need to find a means of displaying a different set of links in the sidebar according to which category archive is being viewed, and also according to which category a single post being viewed belongs to.
Does anybody know of a means to do this? Is it possible?
There are quite a few topic dealing with this issue: multiple sidebars depending on category or other choices.
You either use different template files that call different sidebar files or use Conditional_Tags - eventually, both combined.
You will also have to learn about Template_Hierarchy and Category_Templates.
Posted 1 year ago #
Ah... ok... thanks.
I was hoping that there might be something easier for the users of the site available... so that the content (links) could be actually managed and edited from within wordpress on a per-category basis (and of course, per article for the posts), as to hard code the links into template files defeats the object of content management, and my users just aren't going to get their heads around how to edit it.
If there's no way, then I guess there's no way. It's at times like this I wish I could code well lol.
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