Title: Dynamic sidebar module for WordPress
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Dynamic sidebar module for WordPress

 *  [JSin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jsin/)
 * (@jsin)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dynamic-sidebar-module-for-wordpress/)
 * I have an HTML-based website that has a traditional 3-column layout. The left
   side is a navmenu, the center houses the main content, and the right column has“
   modules” (or widget) I call in using some basic php includes.
 * When I’ve done a music review, I’ve had a little box from Amazon MP3 display 
   specific to the album I was reviewing. An example can be seen here: [http://goo.gl/r2q4B](http://goo.gl/r2q4B)
 * I’m trying to migrate into WordPress, and I was wondering if there is a way to
   basically replicate this. I thought maybe there’s a way to go into sidebar.php
   and set up some custom code that looked at the specific article it was being 
   displayed on and took a variable passed from that page to complete the custom
   code, therefore creating the Amazon MP3 box. The reason I say this is because,
   if you look at the source code for the page I linked (CTRL+F “get this album 
   now”), the Amazon code basically stays the same, except for what I imagine is
   the product ID for Amazon (here, B0055DOV66). So, theoretically (at least in 
   my mind), if I had a code set up with some sort of variable in place of that 
   product ID, and the article itself somehow passed this product ID (if it could
   be declared inside it), then it would possibly complete that box code altogether.
 * However, I’m not really sure of the syntax that would/should be used in the sidebar.
   php file, nor am I at all sure how to pass the variable from the article to be
   accepted by the sidebar.php
 * Any ideas? Thanks.

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