Custom Community Sidebar issues

[smithsmith]

Hi there,

I am using the theme Custom Community on one of my client’s sites. I was looking to use a right sidebar on the homepage, a left sidebar (with different widgets from the homepage sidebar) on other information based pages, and then the full-width page other miscellaneous pages.

Is there any way I can do that? Or, am I limited to just a right sidebar, or a left sidebar, or no sidebars?

I am new to this theme so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Balint Toth]

Hello!

I have googled a little bit, and regarding the left or right sidebar issue, you should check out this:
https://www.custom-community.themekraft.com/page-templates-2/

The tricky part is that you want the sidebar to have different widgets based on what page it is. It could be done with some php coding using a child theme, but there might be a plugin for this.

[smithsmith]

Thanks so much for your reply!

For whatever reason, my version of Custom Community is showing 5 options for templates, and they aren’t the ones in the above website, sadly…

1. Default Template
2. BuddyPress – Active Directory
3. Full-Width
4. Links
5. Search Full-Width

Any ideas?

Thanks again for your help!

[Balint Toth]

I have installed this theme for myself now, and it looks like there is no option for determining which sidebar to appear when, at least in the free version…

It looks like from the documentation that the theme is meant to be customised, so maybe the best option is to make a child theme and make some page templates there (more on making child themes you can find here: ).

In the template files, the files for the left and right sidebar are included (sidebar.php and sidebar-left.php in /wp-content/themes/custom-community/), as the css rules, so you dont need to start from scratch.

[smithsmith]

Wow. Thank you so much for your help! Greatly appreciated! I will start working on a child then. Again, thanks for the help.

[Balint Toth]

You are welcome!

[Life Medals]

I recently had the same problem and solved it with “Widget Logic”. Just be sure to add is_page("Home") OR is_page("Contact Us") for the page you want to show that widget on.