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1. rcgaff
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I modified page.php so that to display a different sidebar on a page titled "The Runner".

   This works fine, but then I want to display the default sidebar for all other pages. I can't the code below to work:

   <?php if(the_title() == "The Runner") get_sidebar('therunner'); ?>
   <?php if(the_title() != "The Runner") get_sidebar(); ?>

   In fact it doesn't seem that any php functions work on page.php - I am beginning to doubt my sanity.

   For example I set $str1 = the_title() and do strlen($str1) it returns zero. I do strlen("The Runner") and it returns zero.

   There must be something basic about the WordPress environment I don't understand.

   Thanks

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try:

   <?php if( is_page('The Runner') ) get_sidebar('therunner');
   else get_sidebar();?>

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

3. rcgaff
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I also discovered that if I save a new page template (with the "Template Name:" header) that a dropdown magically shows up to allow me to select one or the other page template.

   I was making it harder than it was.

   Thanks esmi!

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