Easily Add Custom Header, Footer, or Sidebar on Different Categories

Did you ever come across a site that is using different header or sidebar for some categories? Well this is how you can accomplish that as well.

To call a particular header, you will need to open your index.php and replace your normal header code with this one:

1	<?php if (is_category('Blogging')) {

2	get_header('blogging');

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} else {

4	get_header();

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} ?>

This code above is basically telling WordPress that if someone opens the category called “Blogging” then WordPress needs to display a file called header-blogging.php if it exist. If it does not exist, or if the category is not blogging, then WordPress displays the default header file.

To get a separate sidebar for each all you need to do is add the following code:

1	<?php if (is_category('Blogging')) {

2	get_sidebar('blogging');

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} else {

4	get_sidebar();

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} ?>

The code above will look for sidebar-blogging.php to replace the default footer file if the category is Blogging.

To get a separate footer for each category all you need to do is add the following code:

1	<?php if (is_category('Blogging')) {

2	get_footer('blogging');

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} else {

4	get_footer();

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} ?>

The code above will look for footer-blogging.php to replace the default footer file if the category is Blogging.