Title: Variable Sidebar Content
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Variable Sidebar Content

 *  [easysun3000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysun3000/)
 * (@easysun3000)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/)
 * Hello,
    I have been trying really hard for long time, to have a variable sidebar
   content for my website. [http://www.oole.eu](http://www.oole.eu)
 * Sidebar 1 is the one i want to change: introduce different images and links in
   the “Running Projects” & “Social Networks”
 * Sidebar 2 i would like to keep it stable on all the pages.
 * I think that the solution for this is to create multiple sidebar.php files and
   then introduce a conditional tag in my index.php template file.
 * if (is_page1()) {
 * then
 * use sidebar1
 * if (is_page2()) {
 * then
 * use sidebar2
 * etc….
 * Can somebody tell me if i am on the right track?
    Can you help me to draft this
   piece of code ? I have really tried hard to find a solution to this but is not
   easy for me.
 * Thank you so much in advance.

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 *  [Frumph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frumph/)
 * (@frumph)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172626)
 * if (is_page(‘name of page’)) {
    get_sidebar(‘pagename’); }
 * get_sidebar will get the sidebar-pagename.php file from your theme directory.
 * So if you do get_sidebar(‘list’); it will get sidebar-list.php from your theme
   directory.
 *  Thread Starter [easysun3000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysun3000/)
 * (@easysun3000)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172797)
 * Hello Frumph, and thank you very much.
 * I have done exactly what you suggested. Where name of the page is Page ID (actually
   a number).
 * But unfortunatelly does not work. Is there maybe a specific place where i have
   to insert this piece of code in index.php?
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172799)
 * You can use the pagename..
    `if(is_page('YOURPAGENAME')) { }`
 * or
    `if(is_page( 8 )) { }`
 * When you use the ID (numeric) don’t include quotes around it, like in the first
   example…
 *  Thread Starter [easysun3000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysun3000/)
 * (@easysun3000)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172825)
 * Still, unfortunatelly does not work. Is there maybe a specific place where i 
   have to insert this piece of code in index.php?
    Thanks.
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172828)
 * Perhaps it would be alot easier if you could show us your usage, eg. provide 
   the code surrounding where you’re placing it, plus your placed code…
 *  Thread Starter [easysun3000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/easysun3000/)
 * (@easysun3000)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172852)
 * Hello, in the administration panel>appearance>editor, in the list of templates
   i have two sidebar templates:
    sidebar (sidebar.php) sidebar2.php (sidebar2.php)
 * This is the code at the index.php (conditional sidebar is somewhere in the middle.
   Thank you !!!
 * <?php get_header(); ?>
    <div id=”content”>
 *  <div id=”articles”>
    <?php if (have_posts()) : ?> <?php while (have_posts()):
   the_post(); ?> <div class=”article” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”> <div class=”
   articleMeta”> <div class=”dayMonth”><?php the_time(‘j M y’) ?></div> <div class
   =”comments”><?php comments_popup_link(‘Be first!’, ‘1 Com.’, ‘% Com.’); ?></div
   > </div><!– end articleMeta –> if (is_page(3)) { get_sidebar(‘sidebar2’); } <
   div class=”articleBody”> <h2>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to <?php 
   the_title_attribute(); ?>”><?php the_title(); ?></h2> <?php the_content(‘ ‘);?
   > <div class=”readMore”>#more” rel=”bookmark” title=”Read the entire article!”
   >Read the entire article!</div><div class=”comenteaza”><?php comments_popup_link(‘
   Post your comment’, ‘One comment’, ‘% comments’); ?></div> </div><!– end articleBody–
   >
 *  <div class=”clear”></div>
    </div><!–end article –> <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
   <?php endwhile; ?> <div class=”navigation”> <div class=”alignleft”><?php next_posts_link(‘«
   Older articles’) ?></div> <div class=”alignright”><?php previous_posts_link(‘
   Newar articles »’) ?></div> <div class=”clear”></div> </div> <?php else : ?> 
   <div class=”article”> <div class=”articleMeta”> <div class=”dayMonth”> </div>
   <div class=”category”> </div> <div class=”comments”> </div> </div><!– end articleMeta–
   > <div class=”articleBody”> <h2>Not Found</h2> <p>Sorry, but you are looking 
   for something that isn’t here.</p> </div><!– end articleBody –> <div class=”clear”
   ></div> </div><!–end article –> <?php endif; ?>
 *  </div>
 *  </div><!– end content –>
 *  <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
 *  <?php get_footer(); ?>
 *  [digitalartempire](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalartempire/)
 * (@digitalartempire)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172854)
 * why not use css ?
 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/variable-sidebar-content-2/#post-1172859)
 * Your conditions need to be enclosed in PHP tags, since they are PHP…
 *     ```
       if (is_page(3)) {
       get_sidebar('sidebar2');
       }
       ```
   
 * Should be..
 *     ```
       <?php if (is_page(3)) {
       get_sidebar('sidebar2');
       } ?>
       ```
   
 * You can see examples around the get_sidebar, get_footer and other areas that 
   are PHP… otherwise your PHP code is taken as literal text/html…
 * Anything inside of these are interpreted as PHP…
    `<?php ?>` Anything outside..`
   <?php ?>I'm outside` or `</div>I'm still in HTML mode` ..is read as HTML/text..

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