WPCONCEPT + wordpress resources » multiple sidebars http://www.wpconcept.com Wed, 05 May 2010 15:26:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 create multiple sidebars in wordpress http://www.wpconcept.com/2009/11/23/how-to-create-multiple-sidebars-in-wordpress/ http://www.wpconcept.com/2009/11/23/how-to-create-multiple-sidebars-in-wordpress/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:07:02 +0000 admin http://wpconcept.com/?p=33 When you develop a wordpress theme maybe you have to use two sidebars which to use them both at once or on different pages. I recently encountered with this problem and i thought that maybe there is someone else in the same situation.

Creating multiple sidebars in wordpress is a fairly easy process. We have to work just on functions.php file. Your default functions.php file should look like this:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar();
?>

To create two sidebars paste the following code on your functions.php file:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar1',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h4>',
'after_title' => '</h4>',
));
register_sidebar(array('name'=>'sidebar2',
'before_widget' => '',
'after_widget' => '',
'before_title' => '<h4>',
'after_title' => '</h4>',
));
?>
As you can see i’ve created two sidebars called sidebar1 and sidebar2. To use these sidebars paste on your php files the following code:

Sidebar1 code goes like this:
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar1') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Sidebar2 code goes like this:
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar2') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Hope you enjoy this.

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