[SOLVED] Different Widgets / Sidebar for each menu
 

Would anyone know how I can get a different sidebar with different widgets showing for the pages related to the two menu's I use?

Our site shows info on a Gallery and on a Web shop. I want to keep to keep them separated e.g. I do not want to bother visitors to the Gallery part with info on things they can buy in our shop.

http://www.hazardousoperations.com/movie-ink_wp/

I would love to be able to select which widget shows up on which page.

:confused:

Cheers

two ideas
1) use two sidebars and just show the one you want on the page you want - see the 'Style & configure SIDEBARS' options
2) use one sidebar and a plugin like 'widget logic' or 'viual widget logic' to control the page the widget shows on

Hi Juggledad,

Thanks for the quick reply. Could you tell me where to find the 'Style & configure SIDEBARS' options?
Will have a look at the plugins as well.

Thanks!

sorry, that is an Atahualpa option, I didn't notice that this is a Montezuma question

With Montezuma, you should create a new virtual template - copying the existing virtual 'page.php' template - and call it 'page-nn.php' where nn is the page id or call it 'page-xxxxxxxxx.php' where xxxxxxxxx is the page slug (if you had a page called 'activity' you would use 'page-activity.php')

Next edit this template and near the bottom you will see a dynamic widget area. Call it something else and now you will have two different widget areas and can put the widgets in the one you want.

Hi Juggledad,

Thanks for the advice so far. I managed to do as you told and everything seems to be working, though I do not understand how to get the original widget area on the blog related pages and the newly made widget area on the shop related pages.

Thanks,

Erik

so you created a virtulate template called 'woocommerce-page.php' correct?
did you change the name of the widget area as I told you to in my last post? you need to change the code
to something like
then you will see the new area at dashboard->appearances->widgets

Yeah that is what I did. When I go to the widget tab I see both area's now.

so did you put different widgets it the two areas?

yes but now both blog and shop only show widget area one

go to mto->Export Import and copy the 'Current Montezuma Settings to a TEXT file and attach it to a reply

Hi Juggledad,

Sorry for the slow reply. Great if you could have a look at this matter.

Regards,

Erik

So what type of page is 'The Gallery'?

In the wordpress template hierarchy (if you don't know what this is, do a google search), what templete would be used with this page?

'Gallery' is the page for the blog an all info related to our Movie Poster Gallery based in Amsterdam
'Shop' refers to the shop part - our online poster selling that we wish to see as a separate thing from our Gallery.

'Gallery' is the main page, 'Shop' is in fact an extra part added to the Gallery.

Would that work?

what I am asking is what type of WordPress page is that - ie is it a page page, a single post page, archive page, a category page?

Mmm I am not sure. Attached a screenshot. Would it help if I gave you a login?

Thanks for the incredibly quick replies!

1) there is no screen shot
2) I know the answer, I'm making you dig and learn the answer

1. screenshot attached.

2. bring it on.

so use firebug and look at the page and look at the <body...> and see what classes it has. this will tell you the type of page.

Then download the template hierarchy (remember I told you to google search this) and see what's used for that page type and report back your findings.

it says:
archive category category-movie-ink-the-gallery category-23

Good, that answers 50% of my questions, but that is not a passing grade.

If you don't feel like you can figure out the preferred sidebar widget per page coding, you could always use Display Widgets. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-widgets/

Hi Studioelle & Juggledad,

Thanks for the advice. I decided to use the plugin as it is far more easy for me. Thanks for the advice on coding though Mr. Juggledad!

Best,

Erik

so is this working for you then?

yeah works great! Solved. Thanks.

Erik