Brian Layman

<p>This plugin allows the creation and display of custom sidebars for any page (or post) on your site. On each page, you can choose which of your current theme’s sidebars will be replaced. The replacement works for all descendants of a replaced page.</p>
<p>In this fashion you can:<br />
1. Easily create a CMS like site with unique sidebars for every page, even if your theme doesn’t support it.<br />
2. Create a sidebar with a Cart widget that displays on store pages created by the WP-E-Commerce page, but not anywhere else on the site.<br />
3. Use parent pages to create themed areas of your site, without creating custom page templates.</p>
<p>This plugin is compatible with every theme and all widgets because it hijacks your theme’s sidebars instead of replacing them.</p>
<h3>Use</h3>
<ol>
<li>Edit a page or create and save one. It must at least have a title.</li>
<li>In the ?Custom Sidebar? section, check ?Activate a custom sidebar? and select the sidebar to replace.</li>
<li>On the Appearance->Widgets screen, place the widgets on the newly created sidebar that matches your post. </li>
</ol>
<p>That?s it. No code. No CSS changes. No custom templates.</p>
<p>This video describes the usage of the plugin:<br />
     <span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_U2XfrU7nZQ?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span></p>


Per Page Sidebars

The Per Page Sidebars (PPS) plugin allows blog administrators to create a unique sidebar for each Page. No template editing is required.

<p>A plugin that allows you to have a sidebar for content on each individual page.</p>
<h3>Legacy</h3>
<p>Page Sidebars was my second WordPress plugin (the first to serve a real purpose).</p>
<p>For the first version, the code was useful but not improved upon. It did it’s job, without any fancy features.</p>
<p>For the second version, I reconfigured this plugin a lot to include widget sidebars, but I had to overload it because WordPress did not support some of the functions I needed yet. I also deviated too much from the original purpose of the plugin.</p>
<p>For version 2.5, I drafted this plugin back to it’s original purpose: to serve sidebar content for each individual page. I corrected a lot of my techniques and formed new philosophies about my plugins. This is why widget support was dropped in favor of a smooth, fast-running, single-purpose plugin and without the template files editing.</p>


Page Sidebars

A small but useful plugin to have unique sidebars for each page.

Per Page Sidebars vs Page Sidebars