Hi all. I've been successfully running multiple widgetized sidebars on my site for some time (http://7and1.net). Each section has its own sidebar but I think the way I've been doing it is a bit clunky. Each section has its own page template and sidebar file. Is there I can edit and only use sidebar.php to show the correct sidebar for a page and all its children? Essentially, I was to say "if page is X or parent is X show sidebar Y"
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Good news. I've figured out how to do this minus separate template files by adding this to my page.php. I would still love to be able to do away with the separate sidebar files altogether to further simplify so thoughts are welcome!
<?php if ( is_page('Me') || $post->post_parent == '2168') { get_sidebar('me'); } elseif (is_page('Content') || $post->post_parent == '2175') { get_sidebar('content'); } elseif (is_page('Site') || $post->post_parent == '2172') { get_sidebar('site'); } elseif (is_page('Links') || $post->post_parent == '2965') { get_sidebar('links'); } else { get_sidebar(); } ?> -
I just thought I'd update this with a related find. This blog post has an even cleaner method of calling multiple sidebars: http://marstonstudio.com/2007/07/17/multiple-wordpress-widget-sidebars
I no longer have multiple sidebar files in my theme directory but I am still interested in a smarter/neater way of doing this.
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