Custom sidebar for both pages and posts

• 3abnwebmaster

• July 29, 2014 at 9:10 am

I’m trying to create an ACF option that will allow me to select a custom sidebar for any given page, category, or post within a category type. This is my code. It works for pages, but not for posts or categories.

if( is_page() ) {
    $sidebar = get_field('sidebar');
} elseif( is_category() || is_single() ) {
    $queried_object = get_queried_object();
    $taxonomy = $queried_object->taxonomy;
    $term_id = $queried_object->term_id; 

    $sidebar = the_field('sidebar', $taxonomy . '_' . $term_id);
}

if( isset($sidebar) && $sidebar != "" ) {
    if( $sidebar != 'none' ) {
        dynamic_sidebar( $sidebar );
    };
} else {
    dynamic_sidebar( 'sb-default' );
}

The category edit page shows the field option. But I can’t seem to figure out how to make it work.

• 3abnwebmaster

• July 29, 2014 at 11:41 pm

I edited the code in my question above.

I changed:

elseif( is_category() )

to:

elseif( is_category() || is_single() )

And so now it works for both pages and posts within a certain category, but not the categories themselves (the index/archive/category pages).