Comments on: How To: Different Homepage and Single Post Sidebars

By: Travis Lusk

Travis Lusk — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:08:28 +0000

You should put your email name/email in the fields in the post. You'll automatically be sent the full color, illustrated instructions. Those might be easier to follow along.

By: Richard Giles

Richard Giles — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:45:44 +0000

Apologies if this is covered above.

I'm running Wordpress as a CMS and have the sidebar appearing for my pages. So far so good. However I'd like a completely different sidebar just for my blog – I believe your post covers 95% of it but how do I configure a sidebar just for the blog?

Many thanks

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:01:28 +0000

thank, really helpful tut

By: XRumerTest

XRumerTest — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:16:20 +0000

Hello. And Bye.

By: awesome

awesome — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:12:01 +0000

This post was exactly what I needed. Didn’t know that sidebar-xxxxx was the naming convention – thanks a million!

By: J. Travis Lusk

J. Travis Lusk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:47:27 +0000

@NS – Yeah just input your name and email address and the illustrated version will be emailed to you instantly. Enjoy!

@Simon – Have you signed up to get the illustrated version? It is color coded and really points out the specific code areas better. I didnt see your name on the subscriber list. If not, give it a try. It’s free, and I think it will help you.

By: Simon Clement

Simon Clement — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:16:49 +0000

So I’ve followed this carefully and have now created a new template page (page-ceramic.php) and a new sidebar (sidebar-c.php) that includes the line

if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘ceramic’)

Where ‘ceramic’ is the id of my second sidebar. But the page still shows the default sidebar.

However if I alter the default sidebar.php file to

if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘ceramic’)

then it DOES show this sidebar.

My functions file now shows this…

if (function_exists(‘register_sidebar’))
{

register_sidebar(
array(‘name’ => ‘Sidebar’,
‘id’ => ’sidebar1′,
‘before_widget’ => ”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”
));

register_sidebar(
array(‘name’ => ’sidebar-c.php’,
‘id’ => ‘ceramic’,
‘before_widget’ => ”,
‘after_widget’ => ”,
‘before_title’ => ”,
‘after_title’ => ”
));
}

Any idea where I may be going wrong?

Thanks for any suggestions.

By: Bret Dugmore

Bret Dugmore — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:47:06 +0000

Oh man!

I’ve been looking for this for ages… Thank you!

By: N_S

N_S — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:53:44 +0000

Hello, would it be possible to send me the illustrated documentation aswell, I’m really confused using the text instructions.

Thanks

By: CharlesWWoods

CharlesWWoods — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:42:15 +0000

Make sure you check the quotes if you just copy the code though.. I had to go through and replace them so they would register (they are curly instead of vert quotes).
Cheers