http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Sat, 25 May 2013 19:20:11 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25807 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:46:51 +0000 helgatheviking 25807@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>i must still be missing something. my engineering profs didn't talk about occam's razor.. they talked about dirt. small wonder, why i was so bored with it. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25805 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 03:13:22 +0000 fwunder 25805@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>@helgatheviking, sorry, I was really just being a bit nostalgic; remembering more than one engineering prof beginning a lecture with Occam's razor. That was a long time ago. Without being too cliche' or oxymoronic, my personal observation of Thematic is that it's biggest weakness is it's strength - so many options, so little time. Please don't get me wrong. It's a really, really good problem. Again, the question wasn't really germane to the thread. Just a Thematician wanna-be trying to see a forest through the trees. Had to throw in one more cliche`!! ;) </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25801 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 16:13:40 +0000 helgatheviking 25801@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>@fwunder, didn't understand your rhetorical q. :{ </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25779 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:41:20 +0000 fwunder 25779@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Just got back from downtown Philly. Uhhh,...the cat thing....nevermind.</p> <p>Ya know, at what point do we get with mods before we just use [child]theme switchers? A rhetorical question. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25776 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:02:01 +0000 helgatheviking 25776@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>more than 1 way to skin a cat. which is a weird saying... b/c who skins cats? but definitely more than 1 answer. that plugin is the least coding-dependent, but i find it annoying if you have a lot of widgets. also something pretty elegant/clear about having a sidebar for say the 'shop' section of your site and 1 for the 'blog' section. to each her own... </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25775 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:40:45 +0000 fwunder 25775@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Uhhh, not to be a nudge or noodge, but why not just use:</p> <p><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conditional-widgets/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conditional-widgets/</a></p> <p>This plugin adds a form to each widget on the Widgets panel which allows users to choose which pages and/or categories the widget is either displayed</p> <p>Works great for me... </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25769 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:15:49 +0000 helgatheviking 25769@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>create new widget areas:<br /> <a href="http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/something-new-bout-widgetized-areas#post-6660" rel="nofollow">http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/something-new-bout-widgetized-areas#post-6660</a></p> <p>and use conditional logic to adjust when it appears.</p> <p>currently the only condition in that example is whether or not the sidebar has a widget in it:<br /> <pre><code>if (is_sidebar_active(&#39;header-aside&#39;))</code></pre> <p>but you could have it test for what page you are on w/ WP conditional tags<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags</a></p> <p>for example to limit the widget to the blog index/home:<br /> <pre><code>if (is_sidebar_active(&#39;header-aside&#39;) AND is_home())</code></pre> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25767 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 16:01:37 +0000 barber 25767@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>You could check for a page name, ID or custom field and change the sidebar content based on that. I generally don't use widgets but just put together custom functions. I'd be interested to know how people call actual widgets based on different pages, categories etc. </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/different-sidebars-on-different-pages#post-25744 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 11:41:54 +0000 soluble 25744@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Hi, I'm a complete newbie to Thematic. </p> <p>I have 3 keys pages which I would like to display different content within the sidebar of each page. Is there a way to set up/register multiple sidebars which I can call for each page? I'd like to be able to add different widgets within each sidebar. Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p> <p>Many thanks, Matt </p>