The second coming of sidebar

  • jgpippin

    (@jgpippin)


    20 years ago

    Here’s what I’d love to do, assuming a question I asked about child/parent page listings isn’t answered brilliantly.

    I’d like to create a <i>second</i> sidebar, and a custom page template – identical to the default one – that will call said sidebar. This way, I can set on each page which sidebar I wish to have.

    How do I go about getting WP to recognize custom templates and call a second sidebar?

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  • Thread Starter jgpippin

    (@jgpippin)

    anybody?

    Avenir

    (@avenir)

    If you’re talking about a template for a static page, then all you need to do is add:

    <?php
    /*
    Template Name: blah
    */
    ?>

    to the top of the file you want to serve as the template for the new pages. And then when you’re making a new page, select this new template from the drop-down box.

    To call a new sidebar, you can use the PHP include function. Make a new sidebar file, say example.php, and then add this where you want the code to be included:

    <?php include('example.php'); ?>

    If the file isn’t in the same directory as example.php, make sure you use either the absolute path to example.php or the full web URL to it.

    Thread Starter jgpippin

    (@jgpippin)

    thank you. you, my friend, rule.

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