How to get blog posts to automatically use a custom sidebar?

[Brenda]

Brenda

September 5, 2015 at 6:30 pm

Right now, when I do a new blog post, I manually choose a custom sidebar that I’ve created for the blog. This one is different from the default sidebar for the site (I have products and other custom pages on the site that are automatically set up by a plugin I have and it requires my default sidebar to be product oriented so I can’t use that site default sidebar for my desired blog sidebar. Manually, this has been OK as I write each post I just change it to custom sidebar. But now I’m importing some blog posts from several other blogs (via an RSS feed) and while the archive pages are fine with my custom sidebar, when someone clicks on one of these imported posts, they don’t get the correct custom blog sidebar–instead they get my default site sidebar which is totally the wrong thing. I don’t wish to manually go in to each imported post and edit it to change the sidebar to the proper custom one every time I import blog posts using the RSS feed — so, how can I make my “default” blog sidebar be what I want it to be (and yes, it has to be DIFFERENT than the overall site default sidebar).

I appreciate your help on this!