Topic: Buddypress custom theme with alternate sidebars for different pages

Buddypress custom theme with alternate sidebars for different pages

@frenchtowner

Participant

I am continuing to work on my custom theme based on the BuddyPress Default 1.2.2.1 theme and I have been able to add customized widget page templates for the homepage based on Sarah Gooding’s tutorial on WPMU.org:

http://wpmu.org/how-to-widgetize-a-page-post-header-or-any-other-template-in-wordpress/

I assumed that since that worked like a charm that I could get an alternate sidebar working on certain pages, but I just can’t get it to work. No matter what I do with any custom page template, the default sidebar is always shown. What am I doing wrong?

What php code should I use to call the alternate sidebar?

Do I have to create a whole new [second version] of sidebar.php as in sidebar2.php or custom-sidebar.php?

Here is one version of my custom-page template with the working top and bottom widget areas and the alternate sidebar that is displaying the default sidebar:

<?php

/*

Template Name: Custom 2

*/

?>



<?php get_header() ?>



<div id="content">

<div class="padder">



<?php do_action( 'bp_before_blog_home' ) ?>



<div class="page" id="blog-latest">



<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("widgetized-page-top-2") ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) : ?>



<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>



<?php do_action( 'bp_before_blog_post' ) ?>



<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<div class="author-box">

<?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'user_email' ), '50' ); ?>

<p><?php printf( __( 'by %s', 'buddypress' ), bp_core_get_userlink( $post->post_author ) ) ?></p>

</div>

<div class="post-content">

<h2 class="posttitle"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php _e( 'Permanent Link to', 'buddypress' ) ?> <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>



<div class="entry">

<?php the_content( __( 'Read the rest of this entry &rarr;', 'buddypress' ) ); ?>

</div>



<p class="postmetadata"><span class="tags"><?php the_tags( __( 'Tags: ', 'buddypress' ), ', ', '<br />'); ?></span> <span class="comments"><?php comments_popup_link( __( 'No Comments »', 'buddypress' ), __( '1 Comment »', 'buddypress' ), __( '% Comments »', 'buddypress' ) ); ?></span></p>

</div>



</div>



<?php do_action( 'bp_after_blog_post' ) ?>



<?php endwhile; ?>



<div class="navigation">



<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link( __( '&larr; Previous Entries', 'buddypress' ) ) ?></div>

<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link( __( 'Next Entries &rarr;', 'buddypress' ) ) ?></div>



</div>



<?php else : ?>



<h2 class="center"><?php _e( 'Not Found', 'buddypress' ) ?></h2>

<p class="center"><?php _e( 'Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn\'t here.', 'buddypress' ) ?></p>



<?php locate_template( array( 'searchform.php' ), true ) ?>



<?php endif; ?>

</div>



<?php do_action( 'bp_after_blog_home' ) ?>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("widgetized-page-bottom-2") ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>



</div><!-- .padder -->

</div><!-- #content -->



<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar("custom-sidebar") ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>



<?php get_footer() ?>

I’m not trying to take the easy way out here guys. I have been struggling with this and researching and trying different strategies for 2 days now. I would appreciate any guidance any of you could offer.

Sincerely grateful,

John Stringfellow

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@r-a-y

Keymaster

14 years, 9 months ago

I’d rather use a widget conditional plugin like Widget Context or Widget Logic for the sidebar.

Widget Context is best for non-coders.

@andrea_r

Participant

14 years, 9 months ago

Did you create a new page and apply that page template to it?

Though I woudl really go the route of using the widget logic plugin.

@bowromir

Participant

14 years, 9 months ago

Here is my Sidebar which does exactly what you want: Show different sidebars on different BP sections of the site.. It does not work 100% (blog sidebar does not show up yet) but it should get you started. You use BP conditional tags to show/hide the different sidebars depending where the user is on the site:

<?php do_action( 'bp_before_sidebar' ) ?>



<div id="sidebar">



<div class="padder2">

<?php

locate_template( array( 'accordeon.php' ), true );

?>

<?php do_action( 'bp_inside_before_sidebar' ) ?>

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>



<?php do_action( 'bp_before_sidebar_me' ) ?>



<?php endif; ?>



<?php /* Show forum tags on the forums directory */

if ( BP_FORUMS_SLUG == bp_current_component() && bp_is_directory() ) : ?>

<div id="forum-directory-tags" class="widget tags">



<h3 class="widgettitle"><?php _e( 'Forum Topic Tags', 'buddypress' ) ?></h3>

<?php if ( function_exists('bp_forums_tag_heat_map') ) : ?>

<div id="tag-text"><?php bp_forums_tag_heat_map(); ?></div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>



<div class="padder3">



<?php if(bp_is_group()){

if(!dynamic_sidebar("Group Sidebar")){?>

<?php }

}

else if(bp_is_member()){

if(!dynamic_sidebar("Profile Sidebar")){ //if user profile etc

?>

<?php

}

}

else if(bp_is_blog_page() || bp_is_directory()){

if(!dynamic_sidebar("Blog Sidebar")){?>

<?php } }

else dynamic_sidebar( 'Sidebar' )?>

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar' ) ?>

</div>



<?php do_action( 'bp_inside_after_sidebar' ) ?>

<?php /* Show forum tags on the forums directory */

if ( BP_FORUMS_SLUG == bp_current_component() && bp_is_directory() ) : ?>

<div id="forum-directory-tags" class="widget tags">



<h3 class="widgettitle"><?php _e( 'Forum Topic Tags', 'buddypress' ) ?></h3>

<?php if ( function_exists('bp_forums_tag_heat_map') ) : ?>

<div id="tag-text"><?php bp_forums_tag_heat_map(); ?></div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div><!-- .padder -->

</div><!-- #sidebar -->



<?php do_action( 'bp_after_sidebar' ) ?>

Make sure to register the sidebars in your functions.php (of your child theme)

if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {

register_sidebar(

array(

'name' => 'Blog Sidebar',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '</div>',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

)

);

register_sidebar(

array(

'name' => 'Profile Sidesbar',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '</div>',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

)

);

register_sidebar(

array(

'name' => 'Group Sidebar ',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '</div>',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

)

);

register_sidebar(

array(

'name' => 'Left Footer',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '</div>',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

)

);

register_sidebar(

array(

'name' => 'Middle Footer',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '</div>',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

)

);

register_sidebar(

array(

'name' => 'Right Footer',

'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '</div>',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

)

);

}

@frenchtowner

Participant

14 years, 9 months ago

First of all, I want to thank you all for your help. Sometimes I feel like I am writing to myself when I ask questions here. I am very grateful to have gotten so many responses and such good help!

r-a-y,

I will check into that option. I had used widget logic and one point for another issue, but I never thought about it in this context.

Andrea_r,

I did make a new page and apply that template. That’s why I don’t understand it not working!

Bowe,

I will try your option and see if I can get it working. Does your blog sidebar not show at all? And if it doesn’t show, what is showing in that space, no sidebar and just a wider content section?

John

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