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1. N3RDemon
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hey, I've been working on this for hours and can't figure it out. I'd like to use the page title in a selection statement in order to display the sidebar only on the blog page. So I have:

   $theTitle = wp_title('',false,'');

   if ($theTitle == "Blog") get_sidebar();

   Now when I do:

   echo $theTitle;

   I get "Blog". But for some reason, the if statement doesn't run. So then I tried adding this before the if statement and it ran:

   $theTitle = "Blog";

   So wp_title() must not be returning what I think it's returning. Can anybody clue me in? Maybe I think I'm missing something.

   Thanks

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   hi

   try this, which assumes the page slug (url) of Blog is 'blog'

   if (is_page('blog')) {
      get_sidebar();
   }

3. N3RDemon
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ok, so I tried using is_page() and setting up the pages to use slugs and still nothing is happening. The url looks like http://domainName/blog/ and I have an if statement at the bottom of index.php. This is what the last lines look like:

   <?php if (is_page('blog')) : ?>
   <div class="span-6 last">
   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   </div>
   <?php endif; ?>
   
   <?php get_footer(); ?>

   I've also checked for validation errors and W3C says everything's good, so I'm not sure what the problem is. Looking at other threads, it looks like is_page() is very temperamental. I've tried adding wp_reset_query() to the line above the if statement and still no go.

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Is the blog page your homepage or static homepage by any chance?

   If it is you must use if (is_front_page() ) instead of if (is_page('blog'))

5. N3RDemon
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yeah, no it's a static page. At least, I think it is. This is how I set it up. I went to 'Settings > Reading' and selected 'Front page displays a static page'. And then I selected the 'About' page to be my home page and an empty page titled 'Blog' to be my blog page.

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I went to 'Settings > Reading' and selected 'Front page displays a static page'. And then I selected the 'About' page to be my home page and an empty page titled 'Blog' to be my blog page.

   According to the Conditional Tags article/a> you would need to use is_home() for that.

7. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 2 years ago #

   your first attempt works if you put two spaces infront of the "Blog" i.e. "..Blog" with the dots representing the spaces.

   $theTitle = wp_title('',false,'');
   
   if ($theTitle == "  Blog") get_sidebar();

   (I echoed '$theTitle' surrounded left and right with another character, so i could see if anything was around it.)

8. N3RDemon
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   your first attempt works if you put two spaces infront of the "Blog" i.e. "..Blog" with the dots representing the spaces.

   That worked! Thank you very much!

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