Add widget area to Category pages

[kqed]

Hi – is it possible to add a widget area just to the Category archive pages? I couldn’t find a way to customize just those pages, rather than all of the archive pages.

For instance:
http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/the-do-list/category/arts/theater/

[Gustavo Bordoni]

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for reaching out to us man, glad to help you.

What I would suggest you is to use some thing the Widget Visibility JetPack add-on. If you don’t have JetPack installed I would say that you would be better with a simpler version of the plugin, since what you really need is that specific addon and JetPack brings a lot of baggage along it with.

• Standalone Widget Visibility
• JetPack Visibility Support page

I hope this solves your issue, If not, please don’t hesitate to reply and I will try to help you further.

My Best Regards,

[kqed]

My question wasn’t about how to change widget targeting — it was about how to make a new widget area that only appears on the Events Category archive pages.

[Gustavo Bordoni]

Hi Kevin.

Can you provide us what is the content of your current page.php and single.php, so that I can provide you a snippet with a possible solution to your problem.

Could you use the Gist from GitHub to share those files, and post a link here? Thanks a lot!

My Best Regards,

[kqed]

We’re using a child theme of twenty fourteen, and haven’t modified page.php. Single.php is here:
https://gist.github.com/kic00/58ab56837f103abf2c89

[Gustavo Bordoni]

Hi Kevin,

So to accomplish that you can follow this tutorial on how to add a sidebar to your site, which is the widget area that you mentioned.

Judging by the code you sent me, you should add the “Step 3” of the tutorial I’ve sent you to the file sidebar-general.php. What you should do is wrap that code with a conditional like is_category to check if you are inside of the archive for that given category.

Don’t hesitate to reply if this didn’t solve your issue.

My Best Regards,

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