stuck on sidebar isolation issue
 

I want to make some of my categories so that they can have different widgets and sidebars.

For instance, on my cooking page, I want to customize the sidebar to show my food categories, etc. by using a hand written widget. I only want to show some things on THAT Category

But I think then it would appear on every page (category or post), right?

I don't want to really change themes, but I need more control over the sidebar areas so I can DIFFERENT info on Different Pages, Posts, etc.

I want to have my cooking categories on THAT category page, and then for example on Gardening I might list some Other topics,

How do I do that?:confused:

There are plugins for that, see http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...p?q=categories