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1. darren hibbs
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   How do hide the sidebar on some of the pages? or hide some widgets on the pages? is it possible? as i just want the my blog page to show the categories and archive widgets.
   Regards Darren

2. allyanders
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   If you want to get rid of the sidebar on some pages you'll need to make another page type.

   I have one I call "blank" and it doesn't have a sidebar. Just the header, content, and then the footer.

   I copied the default "page" template in wordpress, gave it a new name (blank.php) and then added this to the top of the file

   <?php
   /*
   Template Name: blank
   */
   ?>

   Look in there for something about sidebar. In my file it said:
   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

   Delete that line.

   Save it. Upload it back to your theme.

   Then when you go into the Wordpress admin to Pages > edit select your page. Look for Page Template. There should be a dropdown. You want to select blank. Save and view your page.

   Hope that helps.

3. jessn
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Or you can use conditional comments in the sidebar>

   <?php if (is_page('about-me')) { ?>
   widgets code
   <? } elseif (is_page('8')) { ?>
   widgets code
   <? } elseif (is_page('blog-page')) { ?>
   
   <? } else { ?>
   
   <? } ?>

   Is your blog page an actual page, or the default blog page? If it's default then you'll want to declare your pages first, and let the } else { part define what shows on the blog page. If blog is a page then just fill in it's ID or slug in one of the elseif's

4. darren hibbs
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   thank you both for your comments but i think i would try the conditional comments. Thats a great help. Thank you for your help.

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