getting different sidebars in footer

  • Resolved justawebbie

    (@justawebbie)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    I am new to WP but giving it a try on making my own child theme from Twenty Thirteen. I am trying to get a different sidebar for category, tag, and page. It does not work for the news category. I have this code in my footer, should i put it somehow in my functions.php? If so, would someone explain how to do that to me. Can you tell me what I did wrong please.

    <?php if (is_home ()) {
		get_sidebar( 'main' );
	} elseif (is_category('events')) {
	        get_sidebar('events');
        } elseif (is_category('news')) {
		if (has_tag('employee')) {
			get_sidebar('employees');
		} elseif (has_tag('student')) {
			get_sidebar('students');
		} else {
                        get_sidebar('news');
                }
         } elseif (is_page('Athletics')) {
		get_sidebar('athletics');
         }else {
                get_sidebar();
         } ?>
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  • It does not work for the news category.

    what happens?
    no sidebar at all?
    the wrong sidebar respective to the tags?
    ??

    Thread Starter justawebbie

    (@justawebbie)

    Oh I am sorry forgot to put the important part. No sidebar shows up at all for either news or employees or students. It shows up for the home page. I am headed to check to see if it shows up for athletics now.

    Thread Starter justawebbie

    (@justawebbie)

    Shows up for athletics as well. To get it to show up for events I changed it to say (is_singular(‘events’)) since i realized it was not showing because it was a custom post type. So what is not working is the News section of the code.

    Thread Starter justawebbie

    (@justawebbie)

    I was able to get it all working finally. Just kept reading and searching and trying everything I found. I hope this helps someone else new to wordpress with conditional tags.

    <?php if (is_home ()) {
                get_sidebar( 'main' );
           } elseif (is_singular('events')) {
                get_sidebar('events');
           } elseif (in_category('news')) {
                if (has_tag('employees')) {
                        get_sidebar('employees');
                 } elseif (has_tag('students')) {
                         get_sidebar('students');
                 } else {
                         get_sidebar('news');
                 }
         } elseif (is_page('Athletics')) {
                 get_sidebar('athletics');
         } elseif (is_post_type_archive('events')) {
                 get_sidebar('events');
         } else {
                 get_sidebar();
         } ?>
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