Choose which wordpress sidebar to use
September 26, 2009 · Print This Article
Wordpress always have to display the same boring sidebar on each page? What can we do?
Don’t worry, just create a few sidebar files, upload it to your wordpress theme directory. Then the code follow will do the rest.
open single.php and find the call to the get_sidebar() function:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
Replace it by:
<?php $sidebar = get_post_meta($post->ID, "sidebar", true);
get_sidebar($sidebar);
?>
Now when you’ll write a post, create a custom field name sidebar. As a value, give it the name of the sidebar you want to include. For example, if the value given is livexp, WordPress will automatically inlcude live.php as a sidebar.
Note: The same can be done on page.php.
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