Comments on: Multiple WordPress Sidebars with get_sidebar()

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:26:07 +0000

Great article – thanks! Some readers may also find this plugin handy. The graceful sidebar plugin enables bloggers to create custom sidebars for pages or posts using custom fields.

Enjoy!

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:51:05 +0000

Thanks a lot for this post…this is exactly what I was looking for!

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:04:38 +0000

Thanks for the compliments Sam! Glad I could help.

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:04:07 +0000

I believe you can register multiple sidebars for use with widgets. Although that’s not exactly what you’re talking about here, I found this article that could help: http://marstonstudio.com/2007/07/17/multiple-wordpress-widget-sidebars/

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:00:24 +0000

Glad I could help!

By: Cindi

Cindi — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:28:16 +0000

Thank you SO MUCH for the simple explanation of how it knows to use sidebar-xxx.php. My sidebar did not show, but based on examples, I thought I had everything right. Just needed to remove sidebar-.

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:48:07 +0000

Actually… just something to consider. As far as I can see there is no plug in (or no considerable good on) doing what I was looking for. Let say we are using multiple template files for wordpress pages and we want to use different sidebars per template. It would be great to have a plugin which creates some sort of dropdown under pages/post to choose a sidebar template, which you create by duplicating/creating a “sidebar-2.php”. The advantage here would be that you can dump some hardcoded php/html in the page as well having an option to drag some widgets on that sidebar – not one or the other.

However, didn’t find anything like it. Just some brainstorming here.

cheers

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:41:51 +0000

Mate… let me tell you one thing. You are a freaken angel! I was looking for this for ages and it’s now the second time that I read an article on a wordpress thing on your site and the way you describe things is just great. Keep going mate your site rocks! cheers and big hug

By: Caltz

Caltz — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:43:33 +0000

Very nice! Helped me alot! Thanks!

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:06:17 +0000

I had the mentioned problem as well. I managed to have it fixed, although it didnt look too well in IE, while no problems with Firefox.

By: Daniel F.

Daniel F. — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:30:35 +0000

@Rakesh: I had that problem in a bunch of the themes I was using. I got it fixed and updated all the wordpress themes on http://www.allwoothemes.com, I made it now that there is a widget pair of which one sidebar is the searchfield and the other is the results. You can see the result on the themes hosted at my site.

By: John Crenshaw

John Crenshaw — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 04:04:31 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Rakeshkumar! I updated the post to reflect the correction.

By: Rakeshkumar Mehta

Rakeshkumar Mehta — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:26:15 +0000

Please note that the get_sidebar function actually prepends “sidebar-” to everything in parentheses.

For example, if you have a file named sidebar-right.php, you call it with get_sidebar(‘right’);