WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar is one of the attractive feature that many users want to have.The WordPress Plugin landing page is somewhat like a CMS. In this guide we will guide you to create a website with WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar.
WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar : Many Points to Know
WordPress.org uses many custom plugins, which are not available publicly. But we can discover the way easily by few points, those points are actually somewhat Reverse Engineering. It is not that, no one has discovered the ways, but the facts are :
- The need depends on the user.
- Basically there are lot of so called WordPress developers (claimed to be) who knows nothing about WordPress, MySQL and PHP function references.
- There are also many good developers, but this topic, WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar is basically not interesting to them.
- Rest who have some knowledge, opens a website and sucks money by customizing. Do not hire them, they are the worst. Do it yourself or seek plugin in WordPress.org Repo with some functions you want.
- The thing totally depends on the Theme Framework.
WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar : Getting Started
First as we have said, a solid Theme Framework with a custom child theme is needed, like Genesis. If you can not buy Genesis or wish not to buy Genesis, then develop a custom child theme of your own. If you modify the core files of WordPress, the files will get replaced with a single WordPress update. For this guide on WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar, we will actually show the functions for Genesis Theme Framework, but the basic logic can be applied to any WordPress child theme of your own.
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WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar : The Reverse Engineering
Go to any WordPress Plugin webpage, suppose our plugin page :
1 | http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ftp-to-zip/ |
It is a plugin to take backup quite easily. Look at the screen shot :

I have boxed the variable sidebar divs with red line boxes. There is how the HTML code actually looks like :

Basically I can not manipulate the data on my Plugin page on WordPress, I have to use the SVN to update it or create it. So some of the custom data is actually pulled from my SVN. This the first point and very important point. That means they do have a template.
WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar : To do Lists
Spoon feeding is not possible for WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar, you have to yourself. Here are the points :
- WordPress.org uses SVN plugin to extend the functionality to connect and upload plugin, but it needs moderation by a WordPress.org official. It simply explains – take the headache to less, a default page for the plugin is created by a human.
- WordPress.org uses bbPress, but that probably has nothing to to with WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar.
- Understand how WordPress sidebar works :
1 | http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar |
1 | http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar |
1 | http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_sidebar |
Now some extra very helpful articles to get WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar :
1 | http://go.thecustomizewindows.com/sidebar |
1 | http://go.thecustomizewindows.com/page |
WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar : For Genesis Child Theme
So, for WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar in Genesis Child theme, you basically need to add_action in functions.php file of the intended child theme for specific actions by default. Then you need specific sidebar template’s to call as page template. There should be a specific CSS file. Genesis has extensive tutorials and flexibility, so it is a bit of hard working but actually creating a WordPress.org Like Page Specific Sidebar not impossible.
