Custom Sidebar Based On Custom Template

[Leper]

Hello,

I need to have 1 widget appear on all pages except 5. For each of these 5 custom templates, i need to have a different widget appear in the right sidebar.

All pages - same sidebar with same widgets
custom page template 1 - custom widget 1
custom page template 2 - custom widget 2
custom page template 3 - custom widget 3
custom page template 4 - custom widget 4
custom page template 5 - custom widget 5

what is the easiest way to do this? How would i go about creating 5 different widget areas?

[sayontan]

Use a plugin like Widget Logic. You don't need a different sidebar for each page: you only need a different widget, which this plugin can help you build.

[Leper]

thank you... i ended up using the section-widget http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/section-widget/

worked out well...

[hotbelgo]

Hi, can you advise how you would go about converting my site to suffusion? It needs very different sidebars on each of the custom pages

I'm confused by all the options:
1) creating the syntax for widget logic seems very painful
2) http://aquoid.com/news/tag/ad-hoc-widgets/ and [suffusion-widgets id='?'], but i think this is for putting widgets into posts, rather than sidebars?
3) Using a child theme - http://aquoid.com/news/2010/09/suffusio ... nd-tricks/ suggests that this allows the numbers of sidebars to be managed, but not the contents of them. (Unless perhaps I can set sidebars=0 and then create them myself in the template?)

I'm not a great programmer but I can copy examples well, so that would be useful as part of the answer