Sidebar depending on Page

  • Resolved cqwebdesign

    (@cqwebdesign)


    12 years, 4 months ago

    Hi guys, I have scoured the internet and these forums to see if I can find something to help me out.

    I am basically trying to call a sidebar, based on what the page permalink is. I know I can do it like what I have below, but I sort of want to expand on this a bit.

    <?php if ( is_page('about-us') ) { ?>
<?php get_sidebar('sidebar2');?>
<?php } else { ?>
<?php get_sidebar('');?>
<?php } ?>

    I want to be able to create a function that checks the permalink of the page ie.. yourdomain(.)com/about-us/ and then display a sidebar that is named sidebar-about-us.php

    I have come up with this, but I am not a strong php programmer and not quite sure how to get exactly what I want.

    function get_page_id($page_name) {

	$page = get_page_by_title();

	 if ( is_home() ) {
		get_sidebar('sidebar1'); }

        else { ( is_page($page) ); {
        	get_sidebar( '$page' ); }

}

    Please don’t recommend plugins, I want to do this in code so that I can easily incorporate it into my templates for future use.

    Thanks!

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  • Thread Starter cqwebdesign

    (@cqwebdesign)

    12 years, 4 months ago

    Nevermind,

    I found the perfect solution on Stack Overflow.

    But for anyone else who may want the same outcome,

    replace

    <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

    with

    <?php
$id = get_the_ID();
$ancestors = get_ancestors($id, 'page');
$top_page = $ancestors ? get_page(end($ancestors)) : get_page($id);

if(locate_template('sidebar-'.$top_page->post_name.'.php'))
    get_sidebar($top_page->post_name);
else
    get_sidebar();
?>

    Basically, this will check to see if there are any specific sidebars based on a parent page’s slug.

    all you then need to do is copy the sidebar code into a new php file and calling sidebar-{nameofyourpage}.php
    {nameofyourpage} being the parent page slug.

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