How do I make page-specific Sidebars?

  • jbdaigle6

    (@jbdaigle6)


    16 years, 3 months ago

    Hello fellow WP peeps. I have a website, http://www.jbdaigle.com, that I’m using to help me find a job. The sidebar content I have on my home page is way too much to fit in a few of my other pages/tabs. When the page content ends, the sidebar content just kind of stops being in a sidebar and goes underneath the page content. see here: http://jbdaigle.com/job-requirements/

    My question is, how do you make sidebar content page-specific, so that I can put less side bar content on short pages like the one above?

    I tried using a couple of plugins to do this, but didn’t have any luck because the instructions, I think, assumed much more experience with we design than I have–this is my first site.

    If you could help me out, that would be awesome!

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  • thetvstop

    (@thetvstop)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    Do you mean page specific or category specific? There is a difference.

    Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    First thing you should do is fix your missing closing tags and other code errors that are sending the sidebar elements under your content: [Invalid]Markup Validation of jbdaigle.com job-requirements – W3C Markup Validator. Scroll down in the valdiation report to see line numbers and source code.

    Then you can use some php in the sidebar to selectivly load widgets, like Customizing Your Sidebar « WordPress Codex.

    Thread Starter jbdaigle6

    (@jbdaigle6)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    @thetvstop: I mean page-specific

    @songdogtech: Thanks for your input. I’ll see what I can do with the code. This is my first website, so I’m kind of overwhelmed with the code stuff. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction

    thetvstop

    (@thetvstop)

    16 years, 3 months ago

    If you wish to do this manually you can do something like this:

    <?php

if (is_page(array ('2759','2785','2788','2792','4180'))) {

 include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar/pagespecificside.php');

}elseif (is_page(array('2857','36'))) {
	include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar/pagespecificside.php');

 }else{

include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
}
 ?>

    Change pagespecificside.php to the name of your php file, also change /sidebar/ to the directory in which your new sidebar is.

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