How To Control Where Widgets Appear Using WP's Conditional Tags

bytrevoreddy

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10 years ago

Let's say you need to control where you display your sidebar widgets and you want a lightweight and flexible solution. This can easily be achieved by leveraging my preferred Wordpress plugin and using Wordpress's conditional tags

1. Install and active the Widget Logic plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/

2. Go to appearance > widgets and expand the widget you'd like to control. Find the "widget logic" field at the bottom.

3. You will have to use WP conditional tags to control where the widget is displayed. As an example, let's say you want to show a banner ad on a particular post and no where else. You would add the following code to the sidebar item in the "widget logic" field:

is_single(99) && in_category('category-name')

Replace the number '99' with the ID of your post and 'category-name' with the category slug of the post's category. To find the ID of your post, go to Posts in your WordPress admin, and click the post you need the ID of. Then, if you look in the address bar of your browser, you'll see something like this:

http://example.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=1280&action=edit

The number, in this case 1280, is the post ID.

Voila! Your banner ad will now only display on that post! Easy. There are many other ways to use conditional tags with this plugin which are all explained here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/other_n...

Read more about WP conditional tags here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

Good luck!

Trev