How to customize sidebars by page

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I am trying to remove the primary-sidebar widget area (which contains the search, and the Primary widget) from certain pages, but keep other widgets etc.

this is the code I have so far:

//ADD CATEGORIES IN SIDEBAR OF SINGLE POST TYPE
add_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'add_mysite_sidebar' );
function add_mysite_sidebar() {
	if( get_post_type() == 'post' ){		
		dynamic_sidebar( 'News Categories' );
	} else if( get_post_type() == 'events' ){		
		dynamic_sidebar( 'Event Categories' );
	} else if( get_post_type() == 'documentlibrary' ){		
		dynamic_sidebar( 'Document Categories' );
	} else if( get_post_type() == 'bp_members' ){
		include(members_sidebar.php);
		unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar' );
		dynamic_sidebar( 'Members Widget' );
	} else if( get_post_type() == 'bp_group' ){	
		include(groups_sidebar.php);
		unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar' );	
		dynamic_sidebar( 'Groups Widget' );
	}
}

I'm concerned about the bp_members and bp_group sections.. the unregister sidebar doesn't work I suspect because it's already registered once it's in this action, but I hope you can see what I'm trying to do!

I tried to hide it with CSS but the widgets contained in the Primary widget area don't seem to have their own targetable css rules.. I am developing locally so can't include a url unfortunately

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You could try the Widget Context plugin - it lets you decide where certain widgets show up on an individual basis. If you'd rather have different sidebars on different pages, try the Genesis Simple Sidebars plugin.

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Thank you for the suggestion. I'm looking for a simple way with code since that's where my other widget assignments are.. I don't want to have some in the database and some in the php..

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I fixed it with this code:

add_action( 'genesis_after_header', mysite_bpress_sidebars' );
function mysite_bpress_sidebars(){
	if( get_post_type() == 'bp_members' ){
		remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );
		dynamic_sidebar( 'Members Widget' );
	} else if( get_post_type() == 'bp_group' ){	
		remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );
		dynamic_sidebar( 'Groups Widget' );
	}
}

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