Title: Post-specific widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Post-specific widgets

 *  [iainp999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iainp999/)
 * (@iainp999)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-specific-widgets/)
 * Hi guys,
 * I have a client who wishes to be able to choose which widgets appear in the sidebar
   on a “per post” basis.
 * Does anyone have any ideas as to how this might be achieved?
 * Thanks,
    Iain

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-specific-widgets/#post-1548027)
 * Multiple widget-capable areas in the sidebar that are loaded on a per page basis?
 *  Thread Starter [iainp999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iainp999/)
 * (@iainp999)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-specific-widgets/#post-1548293)
 * Thanks for the reply, esmi.
 * She wishes to be able to pick the widgets that suit the content of a particular
   page, if that makes sense?
 * For example, if the article she was writing was about motorcycles, then the widgets
   and sidebar content may need to change to reflect that, but only on that single
   page.
 * Ordinarily, in such a case I’d probably try to produce a “motorcycle” template
   with a sidebar with unique name for that page. The problem is that there could
   be any number of these pages and future content is not predictable!
 * Any suggestions appreciated!!!
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-specific-widgets/#post-1548325)
 * I’m not sure there is any approach that could cope with a potentially infinite
   number of post types that are going to be defined on an ad hoc basis. Widgets.
   custom menus, custom post types – they all have to be initially defined which
   means that they’re a limited resource and can’t be arbitrarily re-defined.
 * Where does she think she’s going to pull this “relevant widget content” from?

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