Front-end developer Erin Seale has brilliantly created a dynamic sidebar for WordPress, whose content options change depending on the page the user is viewing.

To quote Erin on her the idea behind the dynamic sidebar, “Let’s say you have a Blog, an ‘About’ section, and your homepage. In the ‘About’ section, you have the obligatory ‘About’ and ‘Management Team’ pages, and under that you’d like a bio for contacting each of your team members. You would like one sidebar throughout that section with your social widgets and Twitter feeds, but on the ‘Management Team’ page you’d like a contact form instead. On the bio pages, you’d like to include direct contact information for certain members and their personal social links, instead of the generic contact form. The members who do not wish to provide contact information would like to default to the generic contact form.”

According to her, your page hierarchy might look like this:

You can find her tutorial on incorporating it in your site HERE, and it involves creating a dynamic sidebar for a number of pages with content that will cascade 3 levels deep into the page hierarchy.

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