Is it possible to add a select menu to choose a sidebar in the page attributes section in WordPress?

Thanks Luke, this solution works great on my current project, but I'd eventually like to code it. Are you aware of any references or tutorials?

Thanks, Josh

There are several different approaches. You can create a custom sidebar widget section for each page you need different widgets on, but this still doesn't allow you to use the backend in the same way as that plugin does. Try reverse engineering their code in the plugin, as long as they didn't obfuscate it then you might be able to figure out what they did to add the checkboxes for those sections.

The WordPress codex also seems to recommend that plugin in addition to another one. I'm sure there is someone out there who was written the code to do it but I have yet to find anything.

Thanks Stanley for your response.

Here's what I did, and it currently works. I created a new template which I am able to choose from the Templates drop-down. I associated that template with a new sidebar.

My question is instead of creating all of these custom templates (which is more work in the end), I'd like to just create a custom sidebar, and have the option to select it within the page attributes. Basically I want to use page.php for all my common pages but have the option to choose a different sidebar.