Title: Insert sidebars between posts – how do I code this in my index.php?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Insert sidebars between posts – how do I code this in my index.php?

 *  Resolved [jorina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jorina/)
 * (@jorina)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-sidebars-between-posts-how-do-i-code-this-in-my-indexphp/)
 * I am using a Twenty Eleven Child Theme and I’m trying to insert sidebars (well,
   widget areas) between the posts showing on my home page. ([My website](http://catsandflorals.com)
   if you think it’s helpful to have a look, although I don’t think it’s necessary?)
 * I have registered the sidebars in functions.php as follows
 *     ```
       register_sidebar( array(
       		'name' => __( 'Post widget 1', 'yourtheme' ),
       		'id' => 'sidebar-7',
       		'description' => __( 'Widget area between 1st and 2nd post', 'yourtheme' ),
       		'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
       		'after_widget' => "</aside>",
       		'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
       		'after_title' => '</h3>',
       	) );
       ```
   
 * There are two more (Post widget 2 and Post widget 3) which I made in the same
   way.
 * These work in that they are visible and functional in Appearance>Widgets.
 * Obviously however I need to tell index.php where to put my sidebars. I looked
   online and found a few ways to do it, they all say to insert some code here:
 *     ```
       <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
       					<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
       				        <?php /* Insert here */ ?>	
   
       				<?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 * For each of the sidebars it should be something like
 *     ```
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('Post widget 1') ) : ?>
       <?php endif;?>
       ```
   
 * …with the appropriate names filled in.
 * However, for some reason none of the things I found online actually specify (
   or specify correctly) which sidebar goes underneath which post. Whenever I got
   the sidebars to show up, they’d ALL show up underneath ALL posts. That’s not 
   good, I just want the first sidebar underneath the first post, the second sidebar
   underneath the second post and so on.
 * I think what needs to happen is that I need to tell the while loop to only show
   Post widget 1 after post 1 etc. by having it do something different for each 
   iteration, but I cannot figure out how (I’m not experienced with PHP, and everything
   I tried actually prevented the sidebars from showing up altogether, ha).
 * I don’t know if I’m thinking along the right lines there, but even if I am I 
   can’t work out how to code it in PHP properly. Any help is much appreciated!

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-sidebars-between-posts-how-do-i-code-this-in-my-indexphp/#post-3261291)
 *     ```
       <?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
   
       					<?php get_template_part( 'content', get_post_format() ); ?>
       				        <?php /* Insert here */ ?>
       <?php if( $wp_query->current_post <= 2 ) dynamic_sidebar('Post widget '. ($wp_query->current_post+1)); ?>
   
       				<?php endwhile; ?>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [jorina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jorina/)
 * (@jorina)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-sidebars-between-posts-how-do-i-code-this-in-my-indexphp/#post-3261343)
 * That did the job, thank you!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/insert-sidebars-between-posts-how-do-i-code-this-in-my-indexphp/#post-3261343)
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