Different menus for different (groups of) pages

To make myself clearer, I created a menu with WP and I want to use it in one or more pages, on the left sidebar.

I created a custom sidebar in my child-theme, adding this code to functions.php:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => 'Paesi Sidebar',
'id' => 'paesi-sidebar',
'description' => 'Paesi',
'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">' ,
'after_widget' => '</aside>' ,
'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">' ,
'after_title' => '</h3>' ,
));
}

Then I created a new template paesi.php with this code in it:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Paesi
*/

get_header();
    do_action( '__fp_block' );
    do_action( '__breadcrumb' );
      ?>
        <div class="container" role="main">
            <div class="row">
                <?php
                    do_action( '__sidebar' , 'paesi-sidebar' );
			        	do_action( '__loop' );
                    do_action( '__sidebar' , 'right' );
                ?>
            </div><!--#row -->
        </div><!-- #container -->
    <?php
get_footer();
?>

and a sidebar-paesi.php file with this code:

<?php
/**
 * The sidebar containing the left widget area for Paesi template.
 *
 */
?>
<?php if ( is_active_sidebar( 'paesi-sidebar' ) ) : ?>

	<div id="left" class="widget-area" role="complementary">

		<?php do_action( 'tc_top_left_sidebar' ); ?>

		<aside class="social-block widget widget_social">

			<?php do_action( '__social' , 'tc_social_in_left-sidebar' ); ?>

		</aside>

		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'paesi-sidebar' ); ?>

		<?php do_action( 'tc_bottom_left_sidebar' ); ?>

	</div><!-- #secondary -->

<?php endif; ?>

The sidebar is there in the Widgets page, and I added the custom menu to it: I thought all this would suffice, but the sidebar doesn’t show up at all…

@cooperdale,

Did you ever find a solution to this? I too am wanting different sidebars on different pages. I did exactly what you did, have the widget in my widgets editor, but it doesn’t show up on the page I created the custom template for.

Thanx

I use a plug-in called Custom sidebars that worked really well with Customizr.

Actually, I changed my theme and solved the problem that way…

You only need to register new sidebars if you want to place additional sidebars in your page, in other places, while keeping the ones that are already registered.

Changing content of sidebars relative to the page you’re on is called Widget Logic and should be handled by plugins, not by themes. The most popular widget logic plugin for WP is called… Widget Logic.