Comments on: Edit sidebar content as a page in Wordpress

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:02:09 +0000

There is a great plug-in called “Display Widgets” that allows you to choose which page your widget shows up on. In combination with the above, it should be quite powerful!

By: Colin Temple

Colin Temple — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:36:45 +0000

For the moment, you’d have to either make a template file for each page that you wanted a unique sidebar for, or modify the “Page” template to pass some identifier to your dynamic_sidebar() function.

Either way, you’d also have to initiate dynamic sidebars for each page.

It would be neat to have a “Use this sidebar:” with a list of existing ones, and an option to make a new sidebar for the page within the UI.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:30:46 +0000

Thanks for this, it’s very helpful. Someday I would love to see the ability to manage sidebar specific content on a page by page basis in WordPress… but haven’t seen anything out there that can handle it just yet.

Hopefully in the future!

By: Colin Temple

Colin Temple — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:14:48 +0000

Nothing. I just put that snippet of code into a sidebar widget (which I created via a plugin).

You could put that code into any template file. It doesn’t modify WP_Query, it just creates a new instance of it. All the code really does is output the content of a specific page (by slug).

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:10:02 +0000

Can you tell us what you entered into query.php file?