Title: return sidebar as a variable
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# return sidebar as a variable

 *  Resolved [psychomachine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psychomachine/)
 * (@psychomachine)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/return-sidebar-as-a-variable/)
 * Hi,
 * get_sidebar() works very well when you need to output the sidebar on a page. 
   i’m wondering if there is a way to call the sidebar.php and return the evaluated
   content as a variable so that it can be used further in the code.
 * something along the lines:
 * $sidebar = return_sidebar();
    print do_something_with($sidebar);
 * many thanks in advance,
    Tench

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 *  Thread Starter [psychomachine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/psychomachine/)
 * (@psychomachine)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/return-sidebar-as-a-variable/#post-688513)
 * actually, good old buffering does the trick
 *     ```
       ob_start(); // Start output buffering.
       	get_sidebar();
       	$sidebar = ob_get_clean();
       ```
   

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