Looking for WordPress Theme with individual sidebar per page/post

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by SCLocal, Oct 3, 2009.

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    Hello, I know the title of this pose sounds a little confusing, was wondering if any of you have seen a wordpress theme that displays specific sidebars for specific pages/posts.

    For example, the home/index page would display a specific sidebar, the Products page would display another specific sidebar.
    Ideally this would be accomplished using widgets and could be used for either posts/pages.

    Basically I need the ability to define the sidebars that appear per page. I would really like to see a theme that does this and then I can build on that.

    Do you sort of get what I'm trying to find here?
     
    SCLocal, Oct 3, 2009 IP
  2. RAB99

    RAB99 Peon

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    This will be something you would need to edit in your theme yourself, it's not a feature that a designer would really add to a theme unless it was for a custom client. If you google something like 'dynamic wordrpess sidebar' you will find lots of tutorials on covering this its not hard to implement, you only need a very basic knowledge of php.

    what you will need to edit is the sidebar.php file and replace either the widget code or html code to something like

    <?php if (is_front_page()) {
    include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar_children/sidebar_search.php") ;
    include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar_children/sidebar_125.php") ;
    }

    elseif (is_page(array('about','contact','rss-2','faq','site-sponsors','login-page','submit-a-review','advertise','sitemap'))) {
    include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar_children/sidebar_search.php") ;
    }

    elseif (is_page()) {
    include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar_children/sidebar_about.php") ;
    }

    else {
    include(TEMPLATEPATH."/sidebar_children/sidebar_rss.php") ;
    }
    ?>

    but like i say google is your friend here, lots of tutorials on this on the interweb:p

    hope that helps some
     
    RAB99, Oct 4, 2009 IP
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    internetmarketingiq Well-Known Member

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    WP Remix Theme/Template system is as close as I've seen.
     
    internetmarketingiq, Oct 6, 2009 IP
  4. SCLocal

    SCLocal Notable Member

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    Actually I found a very simple fix and I'm feel kinda stupid for not realizing it.
    Basically you just need to find where in the page,post,index,etc. the sidebar is called upon, eg 
    <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php'); ?> or the <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
    Code (markup):
    And change the code to:
    <?php $sidebar = get_post_meta($post->ID, "sidebar", true);
include ($sidebar); ?>
    Code (markup):
    This will allow you to create a custom field in any page/post/index that references a specific sidebar php page. I used this for a left and right sidebar and created individual left/right sidebar files for all pages/posts on a site. A really neat way to fully customize it.

    I suppose for added functionality you can just create a custom widget setting for each page/sidebar but I don't need that right now, maybe in the future, lol.

    The above is working in the latest 2.8.4 WordPress version
     
    SCLocal, Oct 10, 2009 IP