Title: CMS – adding sidebar content within post
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CMS – adding sidebar content within post

 *  [jmcn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmcn/)
 * (@jmcn)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-adding-sidebar-content-within-post/)
 * Hi, new to this forum but not to WordPress…
 * I’m working on my first WordPress-as-CMS project here and have had success for
   the most part. I am hung up however on one aspect. I have one post that needs
   to be split into two divs.
 * I have a category called Profiles that’s like a bios section for the company 
   staff. The posts in Profiles must be displayed with a little sidebar with bullet
   points. The user has a brief bio then to the right of that there’s several bullet
   points titled “Relevant Experience”.
 * I’d like the HTML from the post to look like this (abbreviated):
 *     ```
       <div id="doublecol1">
         <h3>Person's Name Here</h3>
         <h4>Title Here</h4>
         <img src="imgs/profile010.jpg" alt="Name Here" class="profileimg" />
         <p>Profile text here of several paragraphs.</p>
       </div>
   
       <div id="doublecol2">
         <h4>Relevant Experience</h4>
         <ul>
       	  <li>Some text here</li>
       	  <li>some more text here</li>
       	  <li>final bullet text</li>
         </ul>
   
         <p class="download"><a href="#">Download Profile</a></p>
   
        </div>
       ```
   
 * With this I can just make doublecol1 and doublecol2 show up as a two col layout
   with CSS.
 * Now I could probably insert all of this into a post (assuming it wouldn’t change
   all my divs into paragraphs). The problem then comes when the client wants to
   add or modify one of their profiles however.
 * How can I make this sidebar without having to put my HTML into the post? I would
   LOVE to be able to have in the post some code like `<sidebar><h4>`Relevant Ex…..`
   </sidebar>`then use some PHP to find and replace that with my <div id=”doublecol2″
   ></div>. This way the client cannot mess anything up.
 * Has anyone done something like this before? Any advice would be much appreciated.

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 *  [Thomaska](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thomaska/)
 * (@thomaska)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-adding-sidebar-content-within-post/#post-671411)
 * Hi,
 * You could use conditionnal sidebar
 * [http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/wordpress-theme-hacks/](http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/wordpress-theme-hacks/)
 * I use it for my website running under WP : [AboveLuxe.fr](http://www.aboveluxe.fr/).
 * For every category, you have a different sidebar.
 * Make a category by profil and include a sidebar regarding the category :
 *     ```
       <?php
         $post = $wp_query- >post;
   
         if ( in_category('1') ) {
         include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single1.php');
   
         } elseif ( in_category('2') ) {
         include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single2.php');
   
         } else {
         include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/single_other.php');
   
         }
       ? >
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [jmcn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmcn/)
 * (@jmcn)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-adding-sidebar-content-within-post/#post-671539)
 * Thanks for the suggestion…but I don’t think that will work for me in this case.
   Maybe I shouldn’t have used the word “sidebar” as I don’t mean as in a WordPress
   sidebar, rather, I need content written in a blog post to display in two columns.
 * How can I dynamically add a `<div> </div>` into an already posted blog post? 
   Is there a way to search for a particular text string like `<sidebar>...</sidebar
   >` then remove that an d replace it with HTML?
 *  [marr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marr/)
 * (@marr)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-adding-sidebar-content-within-post/#post-671643)
 * I think you could accomplish this with the addition of [custom fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields)
   in your post.
 * Create a category page template. If “Profiles” is category id 4, then the template
   file needs to be named category-4.php.
 * Set up both ‘doublecol’ divs within the loop of the template. The first to pull
   the_content, your post information, and the second to pull in the_meta, or your
   extra stuff from the custom fields.
 * Use CSS to style the column divs to appear side-by-side.

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 * Last reply from: [marr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marr/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cms-adding-sidebar-content-within-post/#post-671643)
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