Code to automatically assign a custom sidebar to posts

[georgewking]

Hi all,

I use Genesis Simple Sidebars and I designed one sidebar per category. It works very well but I would like, rather than manually assign a side bar to each post, to automatically show the corresponding sidebar when the post is shown (all my posts has only one category).

Any help would be appreciated 🙂

thanks,
George.

[Christoph]

Hi George,

Neil's tutorial should do the trick : https://wpbeaches.com/bulk-set-sidebar-categories-tags-simple-sidebars-installed-genesis/

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[georgewking]

Hi Christoph,

Yes it woks!
I just had to add a switch to assign one sidebar to each category and now is working as I wanted.

Many many thanks,
George.

[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 the Sept 13 Post I created the following. Will this work so that it retains all the current sidebars, but allocates one specific sidebar to the 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

[Victor Font]

Frankie, this thread has been marked as resolved. Instead of adding to it, open up a new thread.

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[frankie]

Oops! Thanks Victor, will do.

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