Display Custom Fields in Sidebar

[blzalewski 1]

I'm trying to display two custom text fields (website_name and website_rating) in the Primary Sidebar and have failed to do so. If the post is in the Websites category, I want the widget displaying the data to be activated. What is the most direct way of accomplishing this? I have tried searching in the forum/all of over the internet and have failed to come up with a working solution.

[catrina 103]

The only way would be to make changes in the code, which requires that you use the Base theme in PageLines Framework. I've been searching around, as well, but couldn't find a solution. Have you tried searching for a plugin that would allow you to do this?: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

[blzalewski 1]

Thank you so much for the prompt response Catrina. Any idea on how I could modify the Base theme to do this? I have looked up how to do this but all the possible solutions I have found conflict with the Pagelines Framework.

[Rob 547]

Hi, The issue you're facing is really not theme related in any way, but WordPress. We don't create the widgets. But, that said, you can. You may also use something like Shortcode Exec PHP to create a shortcode and use a standard text widget to apply it. Creating a custom widget is something you'd learn about at www.wordpress.org.

[blzalewski 1]

all of the solutions I have come across ask me to add code to functions.php and the last time I did this my website crashed

[catrina 103]

Depending on where the code is placed in functions.php, the site may crash. Also, there may be something wrong with the code itself.

[blzalewski 1]

Thanks again for the prompt response Catrina. Rangelone.. this has something to do with pagelines because if I weren't using pagelines this would be a very simple addition. Replace: With: ID, "sidebar", true); get_sidebar($sidebar); ?> Pagelines builds the sidebar differently than a normal Wordpress set up and I can't figure out how to do it or find any documentation relating to it. I should be able to add that one line of code in somewhere I just can't figure out where. Also, if I can't figure out how to do this through Pagelines then I would like to figure out how to disable Pagelines' control of sidebars. Any ideas?

[blzalewski 1]

Maybe I could create a second sidebar.php file called sidebar2.php and somehow have that sidebar2.php called on the pages I need it to be called on?

[Danny 1,327]

Hi, Have you tried this plug-in ? http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-field-widget/ I have no experience with the plug-in itself but from the description, it may be what you're looking for.

[jbrouwer 5]

This code in functions.php works for me: [code]add_action('pagelines_inside_top_sb_primary', 'my_custom_sidebar'); function my_custom_sidebar(){ ?>

My custom widget:

Some text to display. queried_object) && $wp_query->queried_object->ID){ $field = get_post_meta($wp_query->queried_object->ID, 'key-of-custom-field', true); echo $field; } ?>

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[catrina 103]

Thanks for posting your solution, @jbrouwer