I need some direction on how to have a sidebar based on meta rather than page
Create a sidebar $type . ‘_sidebar’ Register the sidebar $type . ‘_sidebar’ (e.g dog_sidebar) Pass the type as GET argument to the widget.php (create some menu entries or something else where you link to e.g. wp-admin/widgets.php?sidebar_type=dog_sidebar) Filter out every sidebar that should not be displayed. You can use this function: global $wp_registered_sidebars; $type =filter_input( INPUT_GET, … Read more