Dynamic Buttons in Sidebar Widget?

[dorisfink]

I want to have dynamic buttons appear in the sidebar widget of my posts. For example: when user clicks on post, there are buttons in the sidebar widget that correspond to that specific post. The buttons can either download the image in the post or link to another specific image. These buttons in the sidebar are all relative to the specific post — so each post has the same set of buttons, but each button will download and/or link to different items according to the post.

Is there a code snippet or plugin out there that does this? I hope this makes sense… If you need me to elaborate more, I can.

Thank you in advance!!!

[Victor Font]

What you're asking for sounds like custom coding required. It would work better if you placed the buttons in the post so you can easily manipulate the button targets. The sidebar is not connect to the post content-wise. It's a stand alone entity not associated with the loop that displays the post content. In order to make buttons work in the sidebar the way you want them to work, you need to add custom fields to each post that contain the link targets, or the actual links. You would then display these custom fields in hidden elements within the post content. When a user clicks on either button in the sidebar, a jQuery function would be invoked that reads the appropriate hidden element and redirects the action according to the link.

Adding custom fields is easy. Reading them and adding them to your post content requires that you modify the loop. This can be tricky to get right. The jQuery should be fairly straight forward. If you're not comfortable coding this yourself, I suggest you find a developer. It should only require 2 to 4 hours to complete.

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