January 10th, 2008 Wordpress Should Update get_sidebar to Work With Multiple Sidebars
I submitted an enhancement to wordpress yesterday, to allow get_sidebar to work with multiple sidebars. It’s an extremely simple fix, and you end up with a function that looks like this:
function get_sidebar($name=null) { do_action( 'get_sidebar' ); if ( isset($name) && file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . "/sidebar-{$name}.php") ) load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . "/sidebar-{$name}.php"); elseif ( file_exists( TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php') ) load_template( TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php'); else load_template( ABSPATH . 'wp-content/themes/default/sidebar.php'); }
By adding two lines and one optional parameter to the get_sidebar() function, you would be able to pass it a sidebar name. For example, get_sidebar(’left’) would load the template TEMPLATEPATH . ’sidebar-left.php’ allowing you to have multiple sidebar files as part of your template.
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