Automatically assign a custom sidebar to a category

[frankie]

Hi
I wonder if someone is able to check that I have set up this code correctly please as I am not confident working with php and the functions.php file?!
We have a large site with multiple custom sidebars using Simple Sidebars. But now we need to change a sidebar for one category only but this category has about 300 posts so I don't want to go through changing these manually! The category has a slug of 'here-now-aircraft' and the sidebar we need to allocate is 'hn-aircraft'.

Based on the code from a previous Post (http://www.studiopress.community/topic/code-to-automatically-assign-a-custom-sidebar-to-posts/) I created the following. Will this work so that it retains all the current sidebars and their Posts, but allocates one specific sidebar to one specific category defined:

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add_action( 'genesis_before_sidebar_widget_area', 'themeprefix_remove_sidebar' ); // starts the ball rolling

function themeprefix_remove_sidebar() {
if ( is_category( 'here-now-aircraft' ) ) { // set your connditionals here
remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'ss_do_sidebar' ); // removes Simple Sidebar
remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' ); // removes Genesis Default sidebar
add_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'themeprefix_add_sidebar' ); // adds alternative sidebar in function below
}
}

// Alternative Sidebar
function themeprefix_add_sidebar() {
dynamic_sidebar( 'hn-aircraft' ); // add in the ID of the sidebar you want to replace it with
}

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Many thanks

http://www.studiopress.community/topic/code-to-automatically-assign-a-custom-sidebar-to-posts/

[Brad Dalton]

I assume you have also registered a new widget in functions.php with the i.d hn-aircraft ?

Also, i suggest you use in_category which enables you to load the sidebar on all single posts within the category rather than is_category which returns true on the category archive page.

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[frankie]

Great that works perfectly and thanks for the extra suggestion, Brad.

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