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I'm looking for a way to have a post template that has two sidebars, one on the right side, the other on the left side, with always the same content on each one of them.

I defined that left sidebar as "sidebaraleatorio", and right sidebar as "sidebarrecomenda", and created for each one of them a .php file, then I registered them in my functions.php of child theme. After that, I created a template trying to call the two sidebars php files:

<?php get_sidebaraleatorio(); ?> <?php get_sidebarrecomenda(); ?>

But when I tested, there were several bugs, so I guess something is wrong in my way of doing it... Shouldn't I create different sidebar php files?

If the problem is not that, I can include the other code I'm using on these files

Thanks a lot for any help

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If you add sidebar-sidebaraleatorio.php and sidebar-sidebarrecomenda.php sidebar templates to your (child) theme directory, you can then call them with get_sidebar() function.

Like so get_sidebar('sidebaraleatorio); and get_sidebar('sidebarrecomenda);.

You can read more about sidebars from the Developer Handbook > Sidebars.

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  • Thanks Antti. Just to clarify, I should add this get_sidebar function to the template file I am creating? Besides that, I still need to registered them in my functions.php, right?
    – usina
    May 22, 2019 at 19:06
  • @usina Yes, you can use get_sidebar in your template files. If you want to have dynamic sidebars / widget areas in your sidebars, then you should register sidebars in your functions file, too. I think get_sidebar() only includes the sidebar template file, so it can have either static and/or dynamic content.
    – Antti Koskinen
    May 22, 2019 at 19:17
  • Hi Antti. Thanks, this procedure is indeed working. But another related question. If I want to have an extra sidebar, besides the one that comes with my theme, should I use get_sidebar in my sidebar.php file as well as creating a new one? What I did was 1. Create a new secondary-sidebar.php 2. Register it in functions.php 3. Add a widget to it via WP frontend 4. Call it via get_sidebar in index.php. But it did not work. Am I doing something wrong? Thank you
    – usina
    Jun 1, 2019 at 4:57
  • @usina You need to add the get_sidebar() function for your custom sidebar to every page template where you want to display it. E.g. singular / single / page / archive.php, unless index.php is the only template file you have in your theme.
    – Antti Koskinen
    Jun 1, 2019 at 10:34
  • I am trying to add it to a single post, so in single.php, after <?php get_sidebar(); ?> I added another line <?php get_sidebar( 'secondary' ); ?>. Instead of pulling the sidebar, when I opened the post it returned an error of layout saying that website is under technical difficulties. Should I substitute or just add another line for this new sidebar in index, single and other places as well?
    – usina
    Jun 1, 2019 at 13:38

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