Force sidebar for search page and post category page

[Jumpringer]

I'm using the Simple Sidebars plugin and old "Agency" theme.

The sidebars that display on the "search", "archive" page, and page that displays when "Blog" menu is clicked display the wrong sidebar(s). The sidebar on the individual blog posts are correct.

Some possible solutions might be conditional code on the functions.php, or the plug-in "Genesis Layout Extras".

I'd appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction or to a link with some more explanation.

Thanks.

http://jumpgraphix.com/stage/dev/catzen_forensic/content/?page_id=11

[Jumpringer]

note - just installed the plugin "widget context" - having some success, but not sure this is the solution.

[Brad Dalton]

You can conditionally force a layout http://wpsites.net/web-design/change-layout-genesis/

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[Jumpringer]

Thanks, Brad.

Using the plugin WP Context, I had success, except with this:

Still can't force sidebar display on my site's page11 (?page_id=11). This is a page that contains the blog list.

Here's my code, which doesn't work. Page 11 displays the default sidebar, instead of the sidebar I named "category".

function category(){
if(is_page ('11') ){
get_sidebar('category');
}
}

Suggestions?

[Brad Dalton]

Is the plugin active?

The code i linked to is tested and works but generally, code doesn't work if you have a plugin installed to do the same thing.

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Tutorials for StudioPress Themes.

[Jumpringer]

Brad,

I took the easy way out:

deleted the WP context plugin, made my "Category sidebar" the default sidebar, and reset the other pages to new sidebars.

Now it is working and sidebars are displaying as designed.

Thanks for your help, and Happy Thanksgiving.

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