Comments on: WordPress Hack #17: Templates for Alternate Sidebar Layouts

By: Dave C

Dave C — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:01:35 +0000

Oh, this is fantastic. I wanted to put a 35×70 google chat plugin image on the right side in my horizontal nav bar. I also wanted a random image plugin working in the header. Using your method here, I was able to achieve that. How fun being able to ‘widgetize’ any part of your theme. Thx

By: admin

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:11:00 +0000

nobody can really explain this, it’s a matter of how your theme is setup and HTML code. If you don’t know how to do this – likely you’ll need to hire somebody.

By: pj

pj — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:26:21 +0000

Hi,

I stumbled onto this post when trying to figure out how to change up a template’s layout. I’m trying to move the sidebar from the right to the left of the page. Can anybody enlighten me as to how this can be done?

By: Web Student

Web Student — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:32:49 +0000

Hi, I’m building a website for my school and there are a lot of pages. Currently, my wordpress page has a very long list of pages in its side bar and I am trying to organize it.
My pages are built in hierarchy way and i was wondering if there is anyway to have different sidebars for the different levels. (main page, sub pages, sub-sub pages). I know you can individually code it but I have over 1500 pages so I was hoping there was another way.
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks
Web Student

By: Peavey

Peavey — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:43:42 +0000

This post helped tons. Thanks for your efforts and time. Peaveys last blog post..Ban the Pixie Stix!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:09:50 +0000

@Robyn – you don’t need to use an absolute path with includes, just go from the root, like “/myfile.php” or “/wp-content/themes/mytheme/myfile.php”

By: admin

admin — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:07:01 +0000

I would use the first one, although if the second one works it’s just another way to do it. =0

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:09:18 +0000

I forgot to mention that I’ve read the Codex about templates, http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates, but for newbies, it may not be very clear. So, perhaps it’s just a good idea to use the absolute path when using includes (?)

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:27:38 +0000

I think my code was left out of my comment. I surrounded by backticks.
The two lines were php:
“include(‘sidebar-file.php’)” and
“include(TEMPLATEPATE . ‘/sidebar-file.php’)”

By: Robyn

Robyn — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:23:34 +0000

Right, that was my thinking, thanks. I was wondering also if there’s a difference between this:
“ and this
“

I’ve seen both used and wondered if there’s a “right” way to do it or if it depends on the theme.