How do I make it so that certain sidebars only appear on specific pages or categories

Hi,

I put a content slider on my sidebar. Pretty simple, I just had to paste the code into sidebar.php.

BUT, I only want it to show up for one category.

What's the best way to have it so that you can have different sidebars for different pages and/or
categories.

I've read several ways that this is several ways to pull this off, but none have worked
for me thus far.

Any recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

JB

 

Have you tried using an if/else statement in the sidebar. php file to display the specific content only on certain categories?

 

Will that just work for text or code as well?

 

I've used if/else statements for text and for code.

 

use this plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic

Code (markup):

paste the code into a text widget and add to sidebar.php and add conditional tag is_category('category name') to that widget

 

If this doesn't work try hacking your sidebar.php file in your theme folder.