You can register as many sidebars as you would like and then call them by name in the theme files:
<?php get_sidebar('main_sidebar'); ?>
So, many themes will have a ‘main sidebar’ that is on all the blog pages and then a ‘page sidebar’ that gets called in the page.php file and is only displayed on ‘pages’
OK, so I registered the following code in functions.php in my theme directory:
// Area 7, located on all Pages. Empty by default.
register_sidebar( array(
'id' => 'page-sidebar',
'name' => __( 'Page Sidebar' ),
'description' => __( 'Sidebar for all user created pages.' ),
'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</li>',
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
'after_title' => '</h3>'
) );
and called it in page.php from my theme folder thus:
<?php get_sidebar('page-sidebar'); ?>
The sidebar appears in admin under widgets but even if I use the area the actual page still shows the usual blog sidebar.
did you make the sidebar?
you can probably copy sidebar.php and rename it to sidebar-page-sidebar.php
Hi!
something even more easier, WIDGET LOGIC plugin.
This plugin allows you to pick a diferent sidebar widget for each page of your blog independantly.
You will have to enter a shortcode on each on the widget you will be implementing in your sidebar to define on which page(s) the sidebarwidget will appear.
have fun!
Oh my.. how very useful! 🙂
Thanks people.
Really enjoying playing with WordPress!
The sidebar thing however has me wondering if there is a way to have different pages show different sidebars? So if I made two different pages in WordPress one called A the other B, A would display sidebar 1 and B would display sidebar 2.
Just wondering 🙂
