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Create Page Specific Widget in WordPress

Easiest way to do this is: “Display Widgets” Plugin, “Simply hide widgets on specified pages. Adds checkboxes to each widget to either show or hide it on every site page.”

Alternatively, you can create a custom page template for each page where you want a special widget (e.g. “category-blog.php” or “page-blog.php”) – assign the page or posts to this template, then create a call for that widget in the template:

<?php get_sidebar('blog'); ?>

And duplicate the “sidebar.php” file and call it something custom like, “sidebar-blog.php”, ditch the “aside” code, change dynamic sidebar to say:

<?php if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'blog' ) ) : ?>

and then register it in the functions file:

register_sidebar( array(
        'name' => __( 'Home Sidebar', 'homecarex' ),
        'id' => 'home',
        'description' => 'Widgets in this area will be shown in the home sidebar.',
        'before_widget' => '<aside id="%1$s">',
        'after_widget' => "</aside>",
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ) );

This would create a widget holder like this, “blog”: