Using ACF to display different widgets on pages

• SolidSnake2003

• February 9, 2017 at 5:58 am

I have setup a custom field for displaying widgets based on different pages and posts.

How can I code this?

Here is the code for the sidebar

<?php /* Widgetized sidebar */
if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(‘sidebar-9’) ) : ?><?php endif; ?>

Here is the code for the custom field

<?php the_field(‘previous_page’); ?>

• SolidSnake2003

• February 12, 2017 at 4:27 am

I have setup a custom field with a select and the different short names of the different sidebars. I would like to have the sidebar reflect the widgets based on the sidebar selected.

• John Huebner

• February 13, 2017 at 2:45 am

<?php 
  $sidebar = get_field('sidebar'); // or whatever your field is named
  if (is_active_sidebar($sidebar)) {
    dynamic_sidebar($sidebar);
  }
?>

you should take a look at this https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar. There are many ways to code the sidebar and you may need additional html code. I’d suggest looking at some of the 20XX themes to see how they do it.