QUESTION How about a specific components section for each page

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You could just name your components "home_sidebar", "contact_sidebar", "stuff_sidebar" ...
Then you can simply using if- or switch statement in your template to determine which page is actually loaded and then show corresponding component:

PHP Code:

$slug = get_page_slug(false);

switch ($slug) {
    case 'home':
        get_component($slug.'_sidebar');
        break;
   case 'contact':
        get_component($slug.'_sidebar');
        break;
    case 'stuff':
    get_component($slug.'_sidebar');
        break;
} 


Or use a whitelist array of allowed pages:

PHP Code:

$slug = get_page_slug(false);

$whitelist = array(
    'home', 
    'contact',
    'stuff'
);

if(in_array($slug, $whitelist)) {
    get_component($slug.'_sidebar');
}