[Plugin: Core Sidebars] – Will this work or is there a more appropriate plugin?

  • gr33nman

    (@gr33nman)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    Greetings,

    I’ve downloaded and installed Core Sidebars for a site.
    The instructions seem somewhat cryptic.

    For instance, it’s not entirely clear where this goes or whether I need multiple instances:

    $sboptions = array(
    'order' => 'title-content-widgets',
    'before_title' => '',
    'after_title' => '',
    'before_content' => '',
    'after_content' => '');
    coresidebar($sboptions);

    I assume I have to customize any theme for which I want this to work.

    I could use a straightforward recipe that tells me exactly what to cut and paste where in a command-line fashion if necessary, or from the dashboard.

    Before I go any further, I need to determine whether this is worth my effort and whether it will actually work for me.

    First, I want each page to have some things identical in the sidebar, but at the top of the sidebar I want to have a links widget with links unique to the page, as decided by category.

    If this is not the plugin I need, what’s a more suitable plugin? If this is the plugin I need, I could use more explicit directions.

    Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter gr33nman

    (@gr33nman)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve found another solution.
    I’m using a ‘Widget Logic’
    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/other_notes/
    in combination with ‘Widgetize Anything’.
    http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2006/11/30/widgetize-anything/

    First, uploaded and activated ‘Widgetize Anything’ and created a widget for each page where I needed my links to show up.

    For instance in the widget ‘widgetize anything 1’ I put this in the ‘Title’ field: ‘Recycling Links’

    and in the ‘php code’ field:

    ?><ul class='widget_links'><?php
    wp_list_bookmarks('category_name=recycling&hide_invisible=1&show_updated=0&show_description=0&categorize=0&title_li=&title_before=&title_after=&category_orderby=name&category_before=&category_after=');
    ?><//ul><?php

    (Remove the extra / from <//ul>. This is an artifact from the forum.) Then I activated the widget logic plugin and in the ‘widget logic’ field:

    is_page('recycling')

    Then I saved the changes.

    Now when I go to the ‘recycling’ page, it shows up with my recycling links in the sidebar.

    Sweet!

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