Comments on: Easily Add Custom Header, Footer, or Sidebar for Each Category

By: Wellwisher007

Wellwisher007 — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:43:43 +0000

improve the spelling of programer to programmer

By: hamed.oveysi

hamed.oveysi — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 13:03:28 +0000

I want a custom header for several category pages. Your code works with one category. How to do it?

By: dains

dains — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:42:11 +0000

Actually, a custom page template is a great place to implement this solution. A built-in WP function to tell it to use a custom header, sidebar or footer? Sign me up.

Since you’re using conditional tags for this solution (is_category), you should be able to use the ones for pages (http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#A_PAGE_Page) in a custom page template. I am planning a custom front page assigned via the admin section, so I’ll be trying it out with is_front_page instead of is_category.

Great

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:47:10 +0000

If you just want a different sidebar on the homepage, use the conditional tag if is_home or is_frontpage (depending on how you are creating a custom homepage), and then include a different sidebar file.

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:37:34 +0000

what if i just want a different sidebar than the home page, in other words all categories would have the same sidebar but the home page would have a different sidebar, also how would I be able to edit the different sidebars in the widgets panel?

thanks for this post btw easiest one I found so far.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:57:48 +0000

On a related note - you can create a custom sidebar for each individual page or post using the Graceful Sidebar Plugin. To use this you simply edit your post as normal and specify the sidebar widget title and content in the custom edit fields provided by this plugin.

By: DaveK

DaveK — Sun, 30 May 2010 12:09:11 +0000

WPBeginner does it again! I was looking for ages for a solution to add a different sidebar to different categories, and this worked a treat. Thanks

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:00:01 +0000

For pages, you just use the custom page templates.

By: Ljuboja

Ljuboja — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:30:03 +0000

Does this trick do the same with pages?
Tnx !

By: Editorial Staff

Editorial Staff — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:26:12 +0000

Follow this tutorial.