Comments on: Thesis Tip #2 – Additional Sidebars

By: Brandon Sean

Brandon Sean — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 01:35:27 +0000

Hi thanks a bunch for this tutorial!!

I got the new sidebar installed on my thesis blog, but right now the prob is the fonts appear to be smaller than usual in this new sidebar. Is there a way to correct it?

I am using a 3 column layout and this new sidebar is above the 2 sidebars.

If possible I want this new sidebar to have the same font as the default thesis sidebars?

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:05:34 +0000

Hey, I wanted to also share with you that I used the Thesis Openhook plugin to implement Bill tip.
I highly recommend it.

You simply need to past the content of "function custom_cat_page()" in the thesis_hook_after_post field.

By: Vincent

Vincent — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:29:26 +0000

Thanks for your tip.
I struggle a bit to implement it, mostly because I am new to WordPress. So I wanted to share some of the think I learned.
To find the category ID, see http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-find-wordpress-ca...
The code you are giving is to be added to custom_functions.php under custom folder under your thesis folder.

By: Bill Erickson

Bill Erickson — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:59:04 +0000

Great! I'm glad it worked for you.

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:51:20 +0000

You have saved my blog! I have been scrounging sooo many tutorials on how to put only 1 category of posts on a given page. Your code and instructions worked. Took me a time or two to get the details right but it was dead on and works perfectly. Now I just have to decided how I want the formatting to look and it'll be done (oh, yeah…and write some more posts for other categories!).

By: Bill Erickson

Bill Erickson — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:27:19 +0000

Change this: add_action('thesis_hook_after_sidebars','custom_sidebar');

To this: add_action('thesis_hook_footer','custom_sidebar');

By: Julie Gomoll

Julie Gomoll — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:00:39 +0000

I'm a major Thesis Theme fan. Glad to find another resource for tips

My solution for additional sidebars on specific pages: I use the Widget Logic plugin and conditional tags. After installation, you drag a widget to the sidebar. An extra Widget Logic field will appear. To add a widget to a single page, you simply enter

is_page('pagename')

And to make it appear on multiple pages, enter

is_page(array('firstpage','secondpage','thirdpage'))