Comments on: Display Different Sidebar for Each Post and Page for WordPress

By: Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:07:43 +0000

Hi,

This works great, thanks! How would I go when I’d like to use a checkbox instead of ‘nameofmysidebar’ in the meta value field?

I know how to add the checkbox in my meta box but not how to adjust your code…

Many thanks in advance for your help!!

Cheers,

Thomas.

By: sudwebdesign

sudwebdesign — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:54:51 +0000

ebeta

Here’s a variation of this approach: http://sudwebdesign.com/enabling-and-disabling-wordpress-widget-areas/381

By: ebeta

ebeta — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 04:00:43 +0000

I’m still having problems with this…

I tried the original code, but it went back to the old sidebar

then I tried the updated code below, and now get NO sidebar

By: MelissaTaylor

MelissaTaylor — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:52:29 +0000

If you’re using WordPress there is a plugin for this… “Custom Sidebars”. It’s really easy and free.

By: boggs.chris

boggs.chris — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 21:12:34 +0000

Awesome solution, worked flawlessly the first time I tried it. I have been scouting various custom sidebar solutions and this one works great for me since I only need to have 2 different sidebars and not complex conditional code using only one sidebar file. This is easier for me to come back and make changes at a glance, say a year later because the sidebar files are individual files and logically named. For anyone else’s benefit, I am using this code in a child theme of twenty eleven and it works fine. Thanks Editorial Staff!

By: sudwebdesign

sudwebdesign — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 14:31:38 +0000

Great artile – thx.

I have taken this one step further and produced a howto “to enable/disable Widget Areas for different pages”.

You cn find the article here:- http://www.sudwebdesign.com/articles-page/43-misc-tutorials/103-enabling-and-disabling-wordpress-widget-areas.html

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:09:12 +0000

Remove the code that you added from another site.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:00:57 +0000

i tried to use information from another site in order to create a seperate sidebar for another page and my whole site is down now! when i try to access any part of the site i get this message “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘}’ in /home/content/n/y/r/nyr2008/html/wp-content/themes/easel/functions.php on line 100″

please help me! is there anything i can do to access it so i can save my site?!

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:11:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing the plugin Mike. Would you like to do a writeup about your plugin?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:13:29 +0000

The Graceful Sidebar Plugin has been updated to replace dependence upon custom fields with customized input boxes so you don’t have to remember the name of the fields in order to create custom sidebars widgets for each of your posts or pages… you can find more information at http://www.mlynn.org/graceful-sidebar-plugin