Displaying archive links on specific pages

CMS & WordPress
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Hi,

I’m working on a site with a news section using a ready made theme. I’d like the news archive links to only display on the news page, on a news post, or in an archive (which will be by category only). Below is the offending code from sidebar.php. This checks if there are any widgets activated for the sidebar, and if there aren’t, displays the archive links (by category). Unfortunately, my PHP skills/knowledge are virtually non existent, hence the appeal for help!

You can see I’ve added a tentative ‘else(is_page(’##‘))’ - in theory this ID number is the number for the news index page i.e. if this is the news index, show the archive links; if not, don’t! I do also want widgets in the sidebar to show up on the news page, but I’m just trying to get this conditional code to work first, which it doesn’t (probably no surprise to you if you’re reading). With this code I get the news archive and any widgets on every page of the site.

I’m aware that ‘is_page’ won’t work inside the loop, but the loop is called in the page template and is finished by the time sidebar.php is called (is that right?!)


<?php
	if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'primary-widget-area' ) ) ;
	else ( is_page('27'));
	 ?>

			<li id="archives" class="widget-container">
				<h3 class="widget-title"><?php _e( 'Archives', 'localize' ); ?></h3>
				<ul>
					<?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&show_count=1'); ?>
				</ul>
			</li>

			<li id="meta" class="widget-container">
				<h3 class="widget-title"><?php /*_e( 'Meta', 'localize' ); ?></h3>
				<ul>
					<?php wp_register(); ?>
					<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
					<?php wp_meta(); */?>
				</ul>
			</li>
		</ul>

Thanks for any suggestions :slight_smile:

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Hi, I actually found a nifty shortcut to doing this in the end using a plugin called Widget Logic:
wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

This allows you to add conditional code that decides whether or not your widgets display on a page. This works by adding a simple dialogue box to the widget settings in the dashboard where you can add conditions. E.g. is_category(‘Cheese’) - displays that widget on all posts in the Cheese category.

This worked for me as I could set the right conditions on the Archive widget and have it display on the exact page and post types I wanted. Really neat and useful plugin, check it out!

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