Tualatin Farmers Market has a WordPress site the uses a sidebar for searching, hours and sponsors:
This week they asked if the page for Concerts could be changed so that it didn’t show the sponsors:
I remembered that our theme used a file called sidebar.php and then I added a statement to check for the page name and then alter what posts should be searched using query_posts:
The “if” statement uses: is_page(“Concerts”)
If this page is for Concerts then use: category_name=sidebar_no_sponsors
Other pages use a category_name=sidebar
The client can now login to WordPress and update how the sidebar should look:
The advantage of using this approach is that the client can just use the WYSIWYG editor in WordPress to update how the two different versions of the sidebar should look.