Lin Robinson

Whoa! Okay… that seems to have done the trick.
I avoid widgets in things that already work because they have a way of ttrashing everything already in place.
But the Per Page Sidebar thing there is wonderful, made to order for my purposes. (At least it looks that way now ??

Thanks for the tip, kostas.

I’d hate for anybody to interpret my anxiety here as ungratefulness for free help on what is a free program to start with. I appreciate it a lot.
As I say, I’m not qualified to help others on this forum–obviously I can barely cope with my own stuff.
I DO contribute heavily to forums in other areas of expertise, and answer a lot of questions and requests for advice. I see it as being a question of taking what you need and giving what you can.

Anyway, thanks to all of you.

I should have posted this first, I suppose. But hated to leave an ugly page laying out there.

This is the page in question https://myfunnybooks.biz/star-contributors

It’s trying to do the right thing. show the custom menu sidebar.
But instead it’s saying those pages don’t exist but they do.

I used this code in the page template

<?php if (is_page('star-contributors')):
      get_sidebar('star');
   else:
      get_sidebar();
   endif;
?>

Thanks, Kostas. I doubt my knowledge (or lack thereof) would help many people. I realize this is all volunteer–one reason I was asking if there is some other, higher resource for such things.

I find the Codex absolutely, totally unreadable. I’m thinking that anybody who can read that and figure out how to do it, probably has enough knowledge and skills not to have to ask questions.

I’m here because you click “help” in the program and it sends you here.

I appreciate the time of the person who gave me that code snippet in another thread, but it doesn’t work and I don’t understand why. I posted my URL because it might or might not show something.

Sorry, but I don’t understand your solution. It sounds interesting, and something powerful, but there isn’t enough there for me to try to put it into place.
If you don’t mind, how would you use that plugin to produce a separate menu in the sidebar?

Thanks

I hate to seem impatient, but I really need this, and fairly soon.

I’m just trying to get certain pages to show their own right sidebar menu

Here is the URL https://myfunnybooks.biz

This brings up something I never thought of before. What happens when you install WordPress hit a problem and can’t get answers on this forum? Is there some other resource?

Thanks

OK this is driving me nuts

I included this code in the page.php template

<?php if (is_page('star-contributors')):
      get_sidebar('star'); // get the default sidebar
   else:
      get_sidebar();
   endif;
?>

The page I want to carry the conditionsl sidebar is star-contributors.php
The files sidebar-star.php exists. It includes contribs-vd.php

They are there on the directory. But I can’t get it to anything other than tell me they don’t exist.

I just want certain pages to carry their own sidebar menus.
Can somebody help me further with this?
Thanks

Whoa, It worked!!! That’s SO cool. And I learned about changing slugs…which is the same as changing permalinks, right?

Thanks so much

Lin

No, I think I see that it goes in the main index template.

Or would it be the page template?

Also, my theme has both left and right sidebars. Would I specify the special menu sidebar to the right just by stating rsidebar.php as the default in the code you showed me?

Thanks again

Whoa… that’s cool. I got a feeling it will tax my brain to make it work, but it looks like exactly what I wanted.
Also looks like a good way to screw up.

Should the code you put there go in the sidebar?

Thank you.

Bummer.

Thanks

Ain’t no bad in this, alchymth. I appreciate you help very much.
Turns out that menu is an included html file that’s in use on the home site…and when those tags are removed the header goes haywire.
But I’ll look into all that.

Meanwhile, thanks loads for your help with this.

That would do it, all right. Thanks for making me feel stupid. ??

I guess that got there when I was trying to keep menus from trailing across the page. Or the cats did it while I was out of the room.

Thanks very much for the eye and not snickering.

Thanks

OK, I got this to work…. just added text-transform: none; all over hell.
Not elegant, but it seems to work.

I still wonder why it would use that one style all over the page, not just in the menu div in the header

Still screwing around with this.

I don’t get it. The post is a php document, right? Why can’t I add an include to bring something in?

The style from the menu is spilling over to the posts and sidebar.

Yeah, it SHOULD be for the menu only.