Different Sidebar by Categories & Sub-Categories
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I would like start a generic wordpress blog.
Generic means no restrictions on the topics. It could be politic, sports, marketing, business… anything on earth and beyond.
As such, i would like to have different sidebar by categories and subcategories.
For example, in politic category, I may have different blogroll to the one in sports category.
It should be opened for everything that could be found on sidebar and not resticred to blogroll.
I’ve tried the wp-plugins but could not find any.
Is there any ready plugins for such feature?
I see this as a very useful feature to maximize a blog relevancies as well as the advertising dollars.
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As such, i would like to have different sidebar by categories and subcategories. For example, in politic category, I may have different blogroll to the one in sports category.
All wordpress.com blogs have only one Blogroll located in the Admin area where you enter all links and assign each link to one or more Categories.
The links you enter into your Blogroll are displayed only after the Links widget is placed in your sidebar. Also note that there must be at least one link assigned to a Category before it will appear in your sidebar.
Likewise, the Category widget must be placed in the sidebar for posts to display. And just like links when it comes to posts there must be at least one published post in a Category before the Category will be displayed in your sidebar. *You may create sub-categories an assign hierarchy to them.
Once your Links widget and Categories widget are positioned in your sidebar, the manner in which the links you entered into your Blogroll will be displayed is alphabetically in accord with the Categories you created and assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll.
Therefore as you will have multiple Categories it may look like you have multiple Blogrolls when you view your links in your sidebar. But in truth, you only have only one Blogroll, which is displays links as separate alphabetically ordered groups, in accord with the Categories that you assigned to those links when you entered them into your Blogroll.
It should be opened for everything that could be found on sidebar and not resticred to blogroll. I’ve tried the wp-plugins but could not find any. Is there any ready plugins for such feature?
This is a wordpress multi-user blogging platform. As it is a shared platform we do not have plugins.
I see this as a very useful feature to maximize a blog relevancies as well as the advertising dollars.
Please consult the ToS and the FAQs. Blogs hosted by wordpress.com cannot advertize and cannot be used to drive traffic to third party sites. The only exception is for paid for VIP hosted accounts.
http://wordpress.com/tos/
http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/12/08/adsense/
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Although we do not have plugins, we do have widgets which are found here -> Presentation -> Widgets http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/12/24/what-is-a-widget/
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Short answer: wp.com is not for you as advertsing is not allowed here as well as the sidebars don’t change between different categories. We also don’t have file level access here as that would be a security concern since this is a shared environment.
Best bet would be to grab the software from http://wordpress.org and find yourself a host. That way you have complete control over your blog.
Hope this helps,
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sorry for creating confusion.
yes, i’ll host the site myself using wordpress.
so is there any tool out there allowing me to have different sidebar contents based on different categories/subcategories?
sorry if this is not the right place to ask, but i could not find anywhere to get my answer.
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http://wordpress.org please. That’s the site for the support of the software. You’re at a hosting company. Like going into a McDonalds and asking for Pizza Hut. (I hope you understand the reference as I note where you are posting from and you may not)
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