>>> I made a [[git]] branch for it [[!template id=gitbranch branch="privat/multiple_sidebars" author="[[jeanprivat]]"]] --[[jeanprivat]]
+>>>> Ping for [[Joey]]. Do you have any comment? I could improve it if there is things you do not like. I prefer to have such a feature integrated upstream. --[[JeanPrivat]]
+
+>>>>> The code is fine.
+>>>>>
+>>>>> I did think about having it examine
+>>>>> the `page.tmpl` for parameters with names like `FOO_SIDEBAR`
+>>>>> and automatically enable page `foo` as a sidebar in that case,
+>>>>> instead of using the setup file to enable. But I'm not sure about
+>>>>> that idea..
+>>>>>
+>>>>> The full compliment of sidebars would be a header, a footer,
+>>>>> a left, and a right sidebar. It would make sense to go ahead
+>>>>> and add the parameters to `page.tmpl` so enabling each just works,
+>>>>> and add whatever basic CSS makes sense. Although I don't know
+>>>>> if I want to try to get a 3 column CSS going, so perhaps leave the
+>>>>> left sidebar out of that.
+
+-------------------
+
<pre>
--- /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Plugin/sidebar.pm 2010-02-11 22:53:17.000000000 -0500
+++ plugins/IkiWiki/Plugin/sidebar.pm 2010-02-27 09:54:12.524412391 -0500
}
</pre>
+----------------------------------------
+## Further thoughts about this
+
+(since the indentation level was getting rather high.)
+
+What about using pagespecs in the config to map pages and sidebar pages together? Something like this:
+
+<pre>
+ sidebar_pagespec => {
+ "foo/*" => 'sidebars/foo_sidebar',
+ "bar/* and !bar/*/*' => 'bar/bar_top_sidebar',
+ "* and !foo/* and !bar/*" => 'sidebars/general_sidebar',
+ },
+</pre>
+
+One could do something similar for *pageheader*, *pagefooter* and *rightbar* if desired.
+
+Another thing which I find compelling - but probably because I am using [[plugins/contrib/field]] - is to be able to treat the included page as if it were *part* of the page it was included into, rather than as an included page. I mean things like \[[!if ...]] would test against the page name of the page it's included into rather than the name of the sidebar/header/footer page. It's even more powerful if one combines this with field/getfield/ftemplate/report, since one could make "generic" headers and footers that could apply to a whole set of pages.
+
+Header example:
+<pre>
+#{{$title}}
+\[[!ftemplate id="nice_data_table"]]
+</pre>
+
+Footer example:
+<pre>
+------------
+\[[!report template="footer_trail" trail="trailpage" here_only=1]]
+</pre>
+
+(Yes, I am already doing something like this on my own site. It's like the PmWiki concept of GroupHeader/GroupFooter)
+
+-- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+
[[!tag wishlist]]
+
+> I am stumbling upon this discussion, and I noticed that I implemented part of [[KathrynAndersen]] idea in the [[plugins/contrib/sidebar2]] [[plugin|plugins]]. Using this plugin, you can have several sidebars, which are included only in pages matching some pagespec.
+>
+> [[Louis|spalax]]