Title: Custom Sidebars
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Sidebars

 *  [Henge Digital – Giles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giles/)
 * (@giles)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars/)
 * Ok I have a home page that is id=1 that has no sidebar but a widgeted footer.
   
   I have Pages with a Page template
 *     ```
       <?php get_sidebar('Page Sidebar'); ?>
       ```
   
 * to call the sidebar in that template
    and a template for my blog or new posts
   page
 *     ```
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
       ```
   
 * which is getting the regular side bar
 * my sidebar.php is
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( is_page('6')) { 
   
        include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-blog.php');
   
       } elseif ( is_page('1')) {
   
       include(TEMPLATEPATH . '');
   
       } else {
   
       include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-pages.php');
        }
        ?>
       ```
   
 * so the blog is page 6 home page 1 (page id not order)
    functions.php
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar(array(
       'name' => 'Right Sidebar',
       'before_widget' => '',
       'after_widget' => '',
       'before_title' => '<h2>',
       'after_title' => '</h2>',
       ));
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar(array(
       'name' => 'Footer',
       'before_widget' => '',
       'after_widget' => '',
       'before_title' => '<h2>',
       'after_title' => '</h2>',
       ));
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
       register_sidebar(array(
       'name' => 'Page Sidebar',
       'before_widget' => '',
       'after_widget' => '',
       'before_title' => '<h2>',
       'after_title' => '</h2>',
       ));
       >
       ```
   
 * and i can edit all 3 sidebars in widgets admin easy peasey
 * All sidebars seem to be working AS i want them .. until i change the reading 
   settings and make a static home page of Home .. and hence call my Posts page 
   as the Blog page.
 * When I do that all of a sudden all pages including Blog have the same regular
   sidebar on them .. am i doing somethign wrong .. as it works without static home
   page i thought I had got it right .. but once i make it static .. it stops working..
   any help greatly welcome !

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 *  Thread Starter [Henge Digital – Giles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giles/)
 * (@giles)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars/#post-1038483)
 * other people must have come across this … but all the things I have read in the
   support pages and this forum just seem to be people that didn’t know how to do
   it .. I feel I have done it right .. as it works until I choose a static home
   page …
 * …. anyone .. ?
 *  [thelastknight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thelastknight/)
 * (@thelastknight)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars/#post-1038490)
 * I use this format to change sidebars.
 * Use `<?php get_sidebar() ?>` on every page.
 * Then inside `sidebar.php` have something like.
 *     ```
       <?php 
   
       if (is_home()) {
   
       include('home-sidebar.php');
   
       } else {
   
       include('normal-sidebar.php');
   
       ?>
       ```
   
 * Within this system you can use all sorts of conditional tags, seems easier to
   manage to me. [http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags](http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags)
 *  Thread Starter [Henge Digital – Giles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/giles/)
 * (@giles)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars/#post-1038597)
 * brilliant
 * but i have a template page for home called Leader.php which has no side bar. 
   and the rest all get_sidebar as you said.
 * but it doesn’t seem to want to tell apart my (blog) posts page fro mother pages
   when i have a static home page made up in the settings. It works fine until that
   setting is changed (which I have to do as I dont want my blog posts on the front
   page.

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## Tags

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars/#post-1038597)
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