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1. jcprovideo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I can't get my conditional statements to work correctly. Is there a better way of doing this?

   <div class="sidebar">
     <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
   
     <?php if ( is_page('homepage') ) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/homesidebar.php'); }
     		else {
   		include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/standardsidebar.php'); }
   		?>
   	<?php if ( is_page('about') ) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/aboutsidebar.php'); }
   	else {
   		include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/standardsidebar.php'); }
   		?>
           <?php if ( is_page('contact') ) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/contactsidebar.php'); }
   		else {
   		include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/standardsidebar.php'); }
   		?>
   </div>
   <!-- END SIDEBAR -->

2. jcprovideo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Basically what I'm trying to accomplish is display a generic sidebar for all other pages...i.e. search archives, tags, cats etc.

3. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   See some working examples how the
   if
   elseif
   else
   are combined: Conditional_Tags#Working_Examples

4. jcprovideo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks that helped... I got it working. I had my PHP all wrong. Here is what I ended up with.

   <?php
   if (is_home()) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/regularsidebar.php'); }
   elseif (is_category()) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/regularsidebarsidebar.php'); }
   elseif (is_single()) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/regularsidebarsidebar.php'); }
   elseif (is_page()) {
   if (is_page('homepage')) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/homesidebar.php'); }
   elseif (is_page('contact')) { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/contactsidebar.php'); }
   else { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/regularsidebar.php'); }
   }
   else { include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/regularsidebar.php'); }
   ?>

5. moshu
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Glad you got it working.
   (maybe you don't need the last "else" line twice...)

6. jcprovideo
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   thanks!

7. cblock
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   i am having a similar problem:
   My conditional statement works for all cases except arts-entertainment page. Below is my code, any help would be appreciated.

   ===================

   <?php
   if ( in_category('news') || post_is_in_descendant_category( 13 ) ) {
   include 'includes/nav-home.php';
   }
   elseif ( in_category('business') || post_is_in_descendant_category( 14 ) || is_page('business')) {
   include 'includes/nav-bus.php';
   }
   elseif ( in_category('arts-entertainment') || post_is_in_descendant_category( 17 ) || is_page('arts-entertainment')) {
   include 'includes/nav-ent.php';
   }
   elseif ( in_category('living') || post_is_in_descendant_category( 19 ) || is_page('living')) {
   include 'includes/nav-liv.php';
   }
   elseif ( in_category('opinion') || post_is_in_descendant_category( 18 ) || is_page('opinion')) {
   include 'includes/nav-opn.php';
   }
   elseif ( in_category('sports') || post_is_in_descendant_category( 20 ) || is_page('sports')) {
   include 'includes/nav-spt.php';
   }
   else {
   include 'includes/nav-home.php';
   }
   ?>

   ==================
   FYI: The idea is to use a different color for navigation for each page in the conditional statement.

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