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1. giles
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ok I have a home page that is id=1 that has no sidebar but a widgeted footer.
   I have Pages with a Page template
   

   <?php get_sidebar('Page Sidebar'); ?>

   to call the sidebar in that template
   and a template for my blog or new posts page
   

   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

   which is getting the regular side bar

   my sidebar.php is
   

   <?php
   if ( is_page('6')) { 
   
    include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-blog.php');
   
   } elseif ( is_page('1')) {
   
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '');
   
   } else {
   
   include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-pages.php');
    }
    ?>

   so the blog is page 6 home page 1 (page id not order)
   functions.php
   

   <?php
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
   register_sidebar(array(
   'name' => 'Right Sidebar',
   'before_widget' => '',
   'after_widget' => '',
   'before_title' => '<h2>',
   'after_title' => '</h2>',
   ));
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
   register_sidebar(array(
   'name' => 'Footer',
   'before_widget' => '',
   'after_widget' => '',
   'before_title' => '<h2>',
   'after_title' => '</h2>',
   ));
   if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
   register_sidebar(array(
   'name' => 'Page Sidebar',
   'before_widget' => '',
   'after_widget' => '',
   'before_title' => '<h2>',
   'after_title' => '</h2>',
   ));
   >

   and i can edit all 3 sidebars in widgets admin easy peasey

   All sidebars seem to be working AS i want them .. until i change the reading settings and make a static home page of Home .. and hence call my Posts page as the Blog page.

   When I do that all of a sudden all pages including Blog have the same regular sidebar on them .. am i doing somethign wrong .. as it works without static home page i thought I had got it right .. but once i make it static .. it stops working .. any help greatly welcome !

2. giles
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   other people must have come across this ... but all the things I have read in the support pages and this forum just seem to be people that didn't know how to do it .. I feel I have done it right .. as it works until I choose a static home page ...

   .... anyone .. ?

3. thelastknight
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I use this format to change sidebars.

   Use <?php get_sidebar() ?> on every page.

   Then inside sidebar.php have something like.

   <?php 
   
   if (is_home()) {
   
   include('home-sidebar.php');
   
   } else {
   
   include('normal-sidebar.php');
   
   ?>

   Within this system you can use all sorts of conditional tags, seems easier to manage to me. http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

4. giles
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   brilliant

   but i have a template page for home called Leader.php which has no side bar. and the rest all get_sidebar as you said.

   but it doesn't seem to want to tell apart my (blog) posts page fro mother pages when i have a static home page made up in the settings. It works fine until that setting is changed (which I have to do as I dont want my blog posts on the front page.

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