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1. jaxshores
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi everyone,

   I have searched through the forum and read the sidebar documentation, but I am still unsure how to include different sidebars on different pages. In other words, I have 3 pages that use the page template, and I need to have different content in the sidebars depending on the page.

   I had read Customizing your Sidebar that mentions that you can include different sidebars, but since every page uses the same template, I am unsure how to include different sidebars depending on the page.

   Another idea I had was to have php in the sidebar template that says "If page is the contact page, display the following content. Else if this page is the about page, display this content," and so on.

   Is this possible? Any advice or help on this topic is greatly appreciated. Here is a link to the blog I am working on:

   http://olivares4santarosa.com/wordpress/

   Thanks again,

   Jack

2. glaze0101
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   http://silverpenpub.net/blog/2008/07/29/using-a-second-sidebar-for-different-wordpress-pages/

3. Otto
   Tech Ninja
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Look closely at the is_page conditional tag:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_PAGE_Page

4. jaxshores
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks guys, exactly what I needed.

5. Badger123
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   This is pretty much the functionality I need also. I don't know exactly where to put the code in otto's link above though.

   Basically I only want links to child pages of the parent page being displayed to be in the left sidebar.

   Any tips?

   Thank you

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