This is exactly what I want to know… I wish you could choose to edit the sidebar when you edit a ‘page.’
Also, I’ve gone from a html site with 5 pages (which is supposedly ever so outdated) to having this wordpress site where I’ve got 5 different header.php and footer.php to get the different header and footer info on each page, and 5 different page.php templates to call their respective headers and footers. Now I’m starting on the sidebars, and it’s a nightmare — looks like I’ll need to do another 5 different sidebar.php files. Gone from 5 files to 20 and counting… argh!
There should be an easy way to do this! I wish that on the ‘page’ edit screen, you could choose which header, footer, and sidebar to use, easily.
thanks for any help anyone can provide!