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1. nycdeb
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   I've been using 3 column cutline for a while now (most currently at the soon to launch http://www.fabulousfoodie.com) and it's so flexible, that it's almost been more of a CMS than a theme for me. I'm really extraordinarily pleased with it. Anyway, here's my question today.

   As I start creating different page templates recently and I'd like to vary the content of the side bars per template type. I've figured out how to get a template to display one sidebar or the other but I can't figure out who to vary the contents of the sidebars themselves.

   So, for example, if 'home' and 'about' have l_sidebar (containing recent posts, categories, archives) and r_sidebar (containing blogroll, search, meta) can I have a left hand sidebar on a page template (let's call it 'recipe') that contains categories, blogroll and search without changing the l_sidebar on home and about?

   I'm starting the think that using widgets is what is holding me back. If there's a way to work this with widgets, that would be great. If I have to lose the widgets to get this done - well, I will give it my best shot if someone can get me started.

   Posted 4 years ago #

2. kimbere
   Member

   nycdeb -
   This is listed as "resolved" but I'm not seeing any answers. I'm trying to do the same thing. Did you get a solution?

   Posted 4 years ago #

3. Paul
   Member

   Hi nycdeb and kimbere,

   Would like same information (if you happen to find it somewhere else).

   Thanks,
   Paul

   Posted 4 years ago #

4. jane42
   Member

   Me too -- please share if you find out how to do this! (can't think why this is marked as resolved).

   J

   Posted 4 years ago #

5. nycdeb
   Member

   hi all,

   I know it got marked resolved - and I was puzzled when it happened since it wasn't at that time resolved. I poked and prodded the coding as much as possible but I haven't been able to find an easy solution that didn't involve widgets.

   I'll try and explain though I admit in advance, I am crap at explaining things like this. I just poke at code until it does what I want and I'm not always sure why it works.

   The answer I've cobbled together so far involves using 3 sidebars (the ones that exist already: l_sidebar.php and r_sidebar.php and one I called sidebar3.php). To create, sidebar3, I just made a copy of the code for "right" (since I was planning on that one being the one that changed most) and I renamed it by including a call for Template Name: sidebar3 at the top. That way, the templates that are supposed to call that one, know which one to get.

   In functions.php, I changed the number of sidebars to 3 and lo! there appeared 3 sidebars on my widgets presentation page so I could mess with the contents of the various sidebars. I also grabbed the JAW Duplicate Widgets plugin to allow me to make multiple copies of specific widgets ('cause I needed two sidebars to include "Recent Posts" and stuff like that. It also allowed me to make quite a few "Text Box" widgets which I used for ads.

   So, having created the sidebars, I went about creating templates and making sure that the sidebar I want on the right (I've left the left one pretty consistent) is name of the sidebar after the TEMPLATEPATH include near the bottom of the page.

   I would have liked to have avoided all the widgeting but *shrug* - no other answer seemed to be forthcoming and I didn't know how to "unresolve" the thread since I wasn't sure how it got marked resolved in the first place.

   I've done my best to explain. I'm not sure I helped but I hope I did.

   Posted 4 years ago #

6. magothy
   Member

   nycdeb -
   This is great! One question. How do you assign a sidebar file to a sidebar widget? Cutline already knows that sidebar 1=l_sidebar.php and that sidebar 2=r_sidebar.php. How do I correlate the rest?

   Posted 4 years ago #

7. magothy
   Member

   Never mind -- I just found the 'dynamic_sidebar(1)' code in the sidebar files.

   Posted 4 years ago #

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