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A 'second' Primary Sidebar

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  • February 1, 2015 at 9:14 am #139259
    TREagans
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    I'm using the Magazine Pro Theme that comes with a Secondary Sidebar. It s it will only be used in a 3 column layout option. Is there a way to use the primary sidebar on certain pages, and use the second sidebar (or a separate primary bar setup) on other pages while using only the single sidebar layout?

    I don't want every page that uses a sidebar to display the exact same content.

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    February 1, 2015 at 9:36 am #139266
    Carlo
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    Hi Treagans. Yes that's possible. The easiest way would be to use the plugin Genesis Simple Sidebars.

    Comprehensive, easy to follow Genesis documentation

    February 1, 2015 at 9:38 am #139268
    Badlywired
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    Well there is, if you want to get into the code and start writing conditional tags or using css to hide things.

    Carrie Dils suggests using body classes and display none, which would be an approach that might suit http://www.carriedils.com/genesis-theme-tutorial-primary-sidebar/

    You could write different page templates, one for one set of widgets using primary and one for secondary, this would take a bit more coding but would probably be the most 'user friendly' if non developers are using it, the instruction use this tempalte displays x and this template displays y is easier than explaining classes.

    You could just a primary sidebar and widget logic https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/ plugin to deterime which pages widgets are shown on.

    My techy blog WordPress and stuff badlywired.com

    February 1, 2015 at 9:58 am #139274
    TREagans
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    Thank you @ Carlo & Badlywired for your input. I'll check out both options.


    @Badlywired    : I'm HTML5/CSS3 developer with some practice in PHP (which I'm currently learning).

    BTW, I'm new to WordPress child theme editing.

    Thanks Again!

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