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1. prologuemedia
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I am trying to use widgets in my sidebar but, I have pages in my site that require different content in the sidebar. How can I apply widgets or widget settings specifically to certain pages or based on hierarchy?

   -gl

2. prologuemedia
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The other possibility is to add a widget without changing the existing sidebar. IS that possible?

   -gl

3. MouseClicks
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Can you maybe do this? Have one include with your widget(s) and another one that does not. Call the appropriate sidebar to the page as needed? Something like this:

   sidebar.php (no widget)

   sidebar2.php or sidebarW.php (so you know it's got a widget)

   Deb

4. prologuemedia
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Well, I should explain better...

   I want all of the pages to have the widget but, each page will have different sidebars. Can I load a widget via a sidebar template instead of the admin interface?

   -gl

5. Roy
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   It's a little over my head, but just look around the forum for "different sidebar" topics, such as these two:
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/116809?replies=6
   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/119978?replies=4

   Maybe there is some inspiration there.

6. prologuemedia
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The way I have it setup now is through page templates where I switch out the sidebar for each template. Again, the desire is to use the same widget for all the pages. However, when you add a widget via the wp admin it completely replaces the sidebar with the widget(s) you add. I just want to have the sidebar AND the widgets.

   Does this make sense? Thanks for the help thus far.

   -gl

7. Roy
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Does this make sense?

   Not really! If you have a non widget sidebar (sidebar.php) that you code yourself, it indeed gets replaced by a "widgetized" sidebar. If you already have a sidebar that uses widgets, you should just be able to add a widget.

8. prologuemedia
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   How do you create a sidebar that uses widgets other than the wp admin? Is there any way to include them programmatically?

   -gl

9. prologuemedia
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   No one?

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