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I want to have different sidebars on different pages.

So firstly I registered a few basic sidebars in functions.php. So they will be always there no matter where I move my theme. Let's name them Standard Sidebar, Special Sidebar, Tiny Sidebar.

The next step was creating sidebars metabox below posts and pages. It lists all the sidebars using foreach $GLOBALS['wp_registered_sidebars'] loop and allows user to pick one.

Now, here comes the trouble.

I don't know how to display my sidebars.

I have a meta value but get_sidebar() accepts only names from sidebar.php file.

What about registered (not included in sidebar.php) sidebars?

I know I could add all my sidebars to sidebar.php/save them as sidebar-name.php, but again, I'm going to use sidebar generator to add addtional sidebars to three basic ones.

Any ideas, walk-troughs how to accomplish this? Displaying registered sidebars by name will be a serious breakthrough in my case.

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You can call registered sidebars with the dynamic_sidebar() function. Just put the ID of the sidebar in to the call. In the case below the id would be homepage-sidebar.

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('homepage-sidebar') ) : ?><?php endif; ?>
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    dynamic_sidebar() is really old function by now, it's well time to stop checking if it exists. :) This just gets passed on as arcane spell...
    – Rarst
    Apr 5, 2011 at 17:30
  • fair enough I've just had the snippet stored for a while and haven't bothered to change it.
    – curtismchale
    Apr 5, 2011 at 20:05
  • Oh my God, I've been so blind ;/ In fact I found the same code @curtismchale gave in my own sidebar.php file... Just moved it from there to page.php... Thanks a lot guys, +1 :)
    – Wordpressor
    Apr 5, 2011 at 20:40
  • @Wordpressor rather than moving it to page.php you should stil call get_sidebar() and put your conditionals in sidebar.php.
    – Chris_O
    Apr 6, 2011 at 8:42

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