Dynamic Sidebars based on page name

Question

I would like to do a dynamic sidebar for my WordPress site, so it would pull in the correct Sidebar template based on the page title of the page.

So if I had 10 sidebars all named like this:

Sidebar Template Name: About Sidebar Template Name: Contact Sidebar Template Name: Jobs Sidebar Template Name: Etc Sidebar Template Name: Page1

So the Sidebar 'About' would appear on the About page, and the same for contact, etc...

Any idea How I would do this? Or Is there an alternative way on how to do it?

Answer 1

Something like this should work:

if( is_page() ) :
    $this_page = get_queried_object();
    if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( $this_page->post_title ) ) :
        echo 'No sidebar defined for this page title';
    endif;
endif;

Answer 2

you can try to include different sidebars when creating new template

name a sidebar like sidebar-jobs.php then when creating template name: Jobs, just call this sidebar like so

<?php get_sidebar('jobs'); ?>

create metabox and list all registered sidebars

<select>
  <?php foreach ( $GLOBALS['wp_registered_sidebars'] as $sidebar ) { ?>
 <option value="<?php echo ucwords( $sidebar['id'] ); ?>">
          <?php echo ucwords( $sidebar['name'] ); ?>
 </option>

then based on selected value - call selected sidebar

Answer 3

Here is a live example from one of my sites:

if(is_page('about-us')) {
    dynamic_sidebar('main-sidebar');
}
if(is_page('contribute')) {
    dynamic_sidebar('page-sidebar');
}
if(is_front_page() && is_page('about-us')) {
    dynamic_sidebar('main-sidebar');
}
if(!is_front_page() && is_page('about-us')) {
    dynamic_sidebar('another-sidebar');
}

if(is_category('archive')) {
    dynamic_sidebar('archive-sidebar');
}

You can see various scenarios where I need different widgets.

Also, in functions.php, I have this code:

if(function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
    register_sidebar(array('name' => 'Homepage Sidebar'));
    register_sidebar(array('name' => 'Blog Sidebar'));

    register_sidebar(array(
        'name' => __('Main Sidebar'),
        'id' => 'main-sidebar',
        'description' => 'This sidebar is active on Homepage, Despre Noi, Directioneaza 2%, and individual profiles.'
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
        'name' => __('Archive Sidebar'),
        'id' => 'archive-sidebar',
        'description' => 'This sidebar is active on Archive page.'
    ));
}