soluble
Member
Hi, I'm a complete newbie to Thematic.
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.
Many thanks, Matt
barber
Member
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.
create new widget areas:
http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/something-new-bout-widgetized-areas#post-6660
and use conditional logic to adjust when it appears.
currently the only condition in that example is whether or not the sidebar has a widget in it:
if (is_sidebar_active('header-aside'))but you could have it test for what page you are on w/ WP conditional tags
http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags
for example to limit the widget to the blog index/home:
if (is_sidebar_active('header-aside') AND is_home())
fwunder
Member
Uhhh, not to be a nudge or noodge, but why not just use:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/conditional-widgets/
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
Works great for me...
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...
fwunder
Member
Just got back from downtown Philly. Uhhh,...the cat thing....nevermind.
Ya know, at what point do we get with mods before we just use [child]theme switchers? A rhetorical question.
@fwunder, didn't understand your rhetorical q. :{
fwunder
Member
@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`!! ;)
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.
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