Title: Need help with dynamic sidebar
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Need help with dynamic sidebar

 *  [Danny](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannyfoo/)
 * (@dannyfoo)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-dynamic-sidebar/)
 * I’m helping a friend of mine combine her sidebar into a single file – used to
   be 1 for homepage (not front page) and 1 for the single, archive etc. This is
   what I’ve done so far.
 *     ```
       <div class="rightside">
       <?php /* singular affects is_single(), is_page() or is_attachment() */
       if ( is_single() || is_page() || is_search() || is_404() ) { ?>
   
       <div class="categories">
       	<h2><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');?>/images/categories-h2.jpg" alt="Categories" /></h2>
       	<ul><?php wp_list_categories('title_li=0');?></ul>
       </div>
   
       <div class="video">
       	<h2><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');?>/images/video.jpg" alt="Video of the Month" /></h2>
       	<p><?php vsf_show_video();?></p>
       	<?php query_posts('showposts=1&amp;cat=1'); ?>
       	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       	<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
       	<?php endwhile; ?>
       </div>
   
       <div class="calendar">
       	<div class="cal">
       	<?php sidebarEventsCalendar();?>
       	</div>
       </div>
   
       <div class="ads">
       <!--adsense#sidebar-->
       </div>
   
       <?php } else { ?>
   
       <div class="video">
       	<h2><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');?>/images/video.jpg" alt="Video of the Month" /></h2>
       	<p><?php vsf_show_video();?></p>
       	<?php query_posts('showposts=1&amp;cat=1'); ?>
       	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       	<h3><a href="<?php the_permalink();?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
       	<?php endwhile; ?>
       </div>
   
       <div class="calendar">
       	<div class="cal">
       	<?php sidebarEventsCalendar();?>
       	</div>
       </div>
   
       <div class="ads">
       <script type="text/javascript"><!--
       google_ad_client = "pub-0097541961472805";
       /* Pinkspace 300x250, created 12/2/07 */
       google_ad_slot = "9760896219";
       google_ad_width = 300;
       google_ad_height = 250;
       //-->
       </script>
       <script type="text/javascript"
       src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
       </script>
       </div>
   
       <?php } ?>
   
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
       <?php endif; ?>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * How’s it suppose to work is, the Else properties should execute on is_home().
   I’ve switched this around but noticed even single posts/pages displayed the is_home
   content.
 * So what I did was switched the code around to test again, but this time I used
   what is pasted above. Then I came about another problem, if I added is_archive
   OR is_category to the IF (which I need to declare), even the homepage displays
   IF code instead of the else.
 * You can see it in: [http://www.decorateur.me](http://www.decorateur.me)
 * Could someone help me out here? Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-dynamic-sidebar/)
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