Calling different sidebar for different categories

  • Hi,

    firstly let me clarify that when I say sidebar – I do not mean the dynamic sidebar which is included with wordpress themes.

    Within my site I want to have certain categories call a custom ‘sidebar area’ which will contain posts from a different cetegory.

    What I think I need (any better ideas let me know please) is some sort of if statement within the normal sidebar.php file which includes certain files…

    In cat 3 (as normal)
    get_sidebar() — (as normal)

    In sidebar.php – (as normal)

    if is_category(3)
    get_sidebar3() — sidebar3 will call a file sidebar3.php which will contain a new loop pulling in category 23 posts

    I know this sounds silly and I am open to any suggestions from you guys who are probably more experienced than me.

    == I guess that I should explain the reasons behind this to help give input..

    I am using WP as a CMS and I am using categories as the ‘pages’ for the site to allow for dynamic adding to etc.

    I have set up a seperate category called sidebarCat which has sub-categories ie side1, side2 etc.
    These sub-categories will be used to contain quotes, images, adverts etc (whatever is needed).

    So within some of the normal categories I want to include the posts from a particular sidebarCat sub-category eg side1…

    I’m sorry this sounds confusing I think that I am thinking too complicated for this and hope that someone can either clarify what/how I should do this or give me a more simple method.

    As always, any help would be great!!

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  • I’m a newbie – so I won’t be much help but I think I have the same issue as you and am hoping someone will help both of us!

    Here’s what I want to do: I’ve added a second categories list in sidebar 2 (sidebar 1 is already activated with a different set of categories that are working well)… what I list under the category list of sidebar 2 should be different. I was able to NAME it differently than sidebar 1 but the list of side bar 1 automatically populated in sidebar 2 area and I can’t figure out how to eliminate them and start a new list.

    Oh – and the new list in sidebar 2 will also be posts… if that helps.

    any help for yet another newbie is greatly appreciated!

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