Comments on: Create Dynamic Sidebars

By: Scott Gostyla

Scott Gostyla — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:40:47 +0000

This is really nice. I’ve seen a couple of complicate quality themes that did this, but I was wondering how to do it for my own these. Thanks

By: Richard H

Richard H — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:28:13 +0000

As far as plugins are concerned, there are many that manage this idea in one form or another, as you can see by the comments here.

Personally, I try to avoid plugins wherever possible—which is why I share these simple code hacks as I implement them on WP Project.

…if I have an about page, and I have a contact page, is there a way to assign a widget to show up on the about page but not the contact page…

Yes, use is_page(’contact’) or is_page(’about’).

Thanks for the support Jeff.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:32:22 +0000

Just wanted to say thank you to each and every one of you for highlighting the various plugins which perform this duty. I didn’t know any of these existed.

By: Inspirasi bisnis

Inspirasi bisnis — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:40:42 +0000

Sorry I’m newby on wordpress, could tell me how can I create a dynamic sidebar as simple as we can?

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By: Azmeen

Azmeen — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:27:25 +0000

Sounds like what my Section Specific Text Widget was born to do

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:25:03 +0000

@ Jeff There is a simple way to assign widgets to a particular page using conditional tags, refer to Codex. It gets better, you can create much more complex dynamic array funtions with 2.5.x, I have a "how to" with a demo on my site.

By: palPalani

palPalani — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:59:38 +0000

thanks, this is i’m looking for very long time.

By: Ted Liptak

Ted Liptak — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 22:13:23 +0000

Good news are coming, thanks.

By: Neil

Neil — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:33:13 +0000

This is exactly what i was looking for, thanx guys

By: Rick Beckman

Rick Beckman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:26:22 +0000

There’s also Sidebar Modules - http://nybblelabs.org.uk/projects/sidebar-modules/ - which is a replacement of the Widget functionality. It provides fairly granular control.

By: kim

kim — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:07:13 +0000

comrade: no i dont thing ‘that sort of granularity and control exist’ yet lol

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:32:04 +0000

helps if I remember the URL eh
http://www.daikos.net/widgets/daikos-text-widget/

By: Steven Hodson

Steven Hodson — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:31:21 +0000

You might also want to check out Daiko’ Text Widget as it will let you specify the pages you want it to show the content on. IT also supports PHP code

By: chaoskaizer

chaoskaizer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:23:10 +0000

interesting,I've implement dynamic sidebars (& widgets) base on wordpress template hierarchy (i.e, single, page, archive) in all my theme. here some live example at kakkoi & its POSH too.

By: nomad-one

nomad-one — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:11:13 +0000

I found a plugin called widget logic which does exactly that, it allows you to control when and how widgets are displayed. Check it out at - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

By: Denis

Denis — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:49:26 +0000

The Widget Logic plugin gives every widget an extra control field called "Widget logic" that lets you control when the widget appears. In the Admin/Design/Widget, all you need to do is type is_page('about') into that extra field of the desired widget.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:16:38 +0000

You might be interested in using my plugin. It is called Core Sidebars and it allows you to assign widgets / sidebar content to specific pages or posts. It has the dynamic sidebar capability that you are possibly looking for. Available at the Wordpress directory .