Comments on: Creating a dynamic WordPress sidebar

By: christopher

christopher — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:44:23 +0000

I tried this and it works but I’m also getting the page ID showing up on the page above the sidebar.

Anyone else having this probelm or know of a solution for it?

By: John Sanders

John Sanders — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:37:09 +0000

Fantastic tip, Ryan!
This has bugged me about sidebars from day one and I just assumed it was impossible for the post section to talk to the sidebar section
I thought about using javascript to peel things out after the fact if the sidebar was too tall. Your way is so much simpler…

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:25:47 +0000

I’ve no experience developing themes for WP.com, but if they let you use PHP just as you can with self-hosted WP, then yes it should.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:40:15 +0000

Hi, this sounds like it has great possibilities. forgive my ignorance, but would this work with wordpress.COM or only .ORG?

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By: Derek Pollard

Derek Pollard — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:42:43 +0000

Many thanks for this information. I have just been implementing a dynamic sidebar for one of our sites but was struggling passing the variables through. Your example of changing the method of including sidebar.php made all the difference.

Thanks,

Derek.

By: Webseiten Optimierung

Webseiten Optimierung — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:33:53 +0000

Hallo danke fuer die Infos. Wie kann ich in deinem Blog noch weiter stoebern

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:23:31 +0000

Hey Alex, make sure you change the code for where your main template calls the sidebar. By default WP uses its own built-in function to load the sidebar.php file. Because of this variables set in the main files (index.php, single.php, page.php, etc.) don’t carry over to the sidebar.

You need to change it to:
[?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar.php’); ?]

(obviously changing the square brackets for their sharper cousins).

Let me know if that works for you.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:45:43 +0000

This is just what i was looking for. I tried to put de content words counter as you said. Also i have put the conditional tags in my isdebar, but it seems that the variable $xxx is not being received in my sidebar. here is my code : single.php

categoria: | main_right_home.php (sidebar) 3500) { ?>