Hello and welcome to WPBeginner. In this
video you'll learn how to display
different sidebars for each post and
page in WordPress. This comes in very
handy if you want to show a different
side bar for your pages versus your
posts and even if you want to show a
specific sidebar for say one of your
popular posts on your website. So to do
that let's head over to our WordPress
dashboard and we need to head over to
our plugins area, we'll click add new.
We'll be adding a new plugin to our
website so we're searching for easy
custom sidebars.
This is the one we want so go ahead and
click install now and once that's
installed let's make sure we activate it.
This plugin can be handled under
Appearance, Theme Sidebars. From here you
want to create a new sidebar so we'll
name it, since it's the sidebar for pages
we're going to add the pages area here
and we need to scroll down we want to
make sure that we replace sidebar which
is the default sidebar that we have with
this and we'll click Save sidebar.
So we have that let's head over to our
widgets area because we want to set it
up on what we want to show for it.
So the sidebar for pages is empty, normal
sidebar will show the search, our sidebar
for pages we want to show categories and
archive. We'll save those items and now
we'll visit the site and see it in
action and you see on our home page we
have the default search like that but
when I click on our About Us page, now we
see categories and because it's fairly
long I'll scroll down and you see
archive and the great thing about that
is you can get as granular as you want.
To show you what I mean let's head back
over to set theme sidebars area. We'll
create a new sidebar, we'll name it and
you probably want to know what the
popular post is. Let's say that our
MonsterLinks two step up in technology
posts is our most popular post
so we'll click Add to sidebar and what
we want to do is replace this one with
our new one.
Let's save the sidebar and now we need
to fix the widget area for just that
post. For this popular post we're going
to add an image and we want to add
recent comments. Now let's see it in
action. When I go back to my website find
the MonsterLinks two step optin, we have
recent comments as our sidebar and when
we go back to our homepage we still have
the search and then when we go to our
about us we have the different category
sidebar. So this is a great way to
showcase specific information based on
where the user is on your site. Did you
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