sidebar content displayed under content

  • Resolved yezzz

    (@yezzz)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hey folks, this is the best deals plugins I’ve seen so far.

    However, there’s a problem: I’ve seen with multiple themes that certain unwanted content is displayed under all the pages generated by the plugin.

    It’s the same “default” content that themes will show in the sidebar when no widgets have been added (eg pages, cats, meta stuff).

    I think this has to do with themes not using default sidebar. I’ve seen wordpress display a message in the admin menu page saying “Your theme does not natively support menus…”

    Removing get_sidebar() from the deals engine template files resolves the issue, but could you please build in some intelligence that will do a proper check. I think there’s conditional tags and filters for that.

    An alternative would be to simply add a tickbox to the prefs to disable get_sidebar(), so we don’t need to edit the files after an update.

    Thanks!!

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/deals-engine/

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  • Thread Starter yezzz

    (@yezzz)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    It says here that when a specified sidebar or sidebar.php isn’t found it will use sidebar.php from wp-includes/theme-compat/

    I can confirm that the theme I’m testing doesn’t have a sidebar.php template, and that it’s using the one from the theme-compat folder.

    Perhaps locate template can be used to check sidebar template.

    And forget what I wrote above about menu’s. I was merely referring to themes having non-standard stuff like menu’s, sidebars etc and that apparently wordpress can detect this.

    Plugin Author wpsocial

    (@wpsocial)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks a lot for the feedback. We will look in to that.

    When you want to change anything for the design or sidebar or anything else, you can copy the “template” folder from the deals engine plugin and paste it in to your theme’s folder and then rename the folder to deals-engine.

    Then you can easily change the design as you like and you won’t lose anything with the next plugin update.

    I hope that helps.

    Thread Starter yezzz

    (@yezzz)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks, that seems to work. Is that a plugin feature, or a wordpress feature? Note that some themes have a templates subfolder, in which case it’s wise to rename the deals template folder before pasting.

    In the mean time I’ve seen themes (eg. twenty eleven) that do have sidebar.php where this problem also occurs Perhaps a styling issue. (or something taxonomy related?)

    And some themes remove their sidebar if they don’t detect any content, in which case taking out sidebar() is not really a good solution. Seen this on Mystique atom theme from digitalnature.eu. It has a template selector in the post/page editor pages. Would have been great to have one in the deals page, for testing purposes.

    Anyway, thanks for the reply. I hope you guys will come up with a fix, or a faq that addresses this.

    Plugin Author wpsocial

    (@wpsocial)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    This is a WordPress feature which can be integrated in plugins.

    Most times it’s a styling issue when the sidebar doesn’t display correctly.

    We are working on a faq which will show how to solve such issues.

    Thread Starter yezzz

    (@yezzz)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Thank you very much 🙂

    I’m sure the FAQ will be very useful for a lot of users.

    paulinelephew

    (@paulinelephew)

    9 years, 12 months ago

    Hello,

    This didn’t seem to work for me.
    I just want to have the full-width template with no sidebar.
    I have disabled the sidebar but my page is squizzed and looks weird.
    How can I get the full width template on a deal page please?

    Here is the url http://linguadeal.com/deals/pack-residence-20-etudiants-4-semaines

    Thanks a lot,

    Pauline

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