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.



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

	<div id="widgetarea-one" class="col4">
		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Widget Area ONE' ); ?>
	</div>

to something like

	<div id="widgetarea-shop" class="col4">
		<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'Shop page widget area' ); ?>
	</div>

then you will see the new area at dashboard->appearances->widgets