Selective Changes

  • Resolved sykotic1

    (@sykotic1)


    20 years, 7 months ago

    Hey all. It’s great to be able to change an entire site by modifying a few files. I’m wondering how to target specific “pages”. For example, the main page of my theme is implemented using “index.php” (duh), and I have various categories containing posts, which are on the sidebar acting as “pages” (?cat=whatever) which is another no brainer.

    My question is this, how can I manipulate elements of a certain “page” ? I’m assuming that what we think of as “pages” are actually entries in a database (hence ?cat=whatever). So as one might fathom I’m having trouble understanding how to change characteristics of such an item.

    I hope you guys can follow me here, it’s nice to change one file and have the changes cascade, but I’m a little stuck as far as changing individual pages/categories. The most that I can do in site admin is change text, so my best guess at this point would be a conditional within index.php to the effect of:

    *if this is ?cat=1 (or ?page=1 for that matter), change the background color to #808080 (example), if it is not then leave alone.

    see what im sayin?

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  • Thread Starter sykotic1

    (@sykotic1)

    20 years, 7 months ago

    just incase im confusing anyone, this is what im tryin to say in a nutshell:

    – i know that by changing index.php, for example, i can affect the entire site.
    – i don’t know how to change the background color of simply one page.
    – i want to keep the “theme” for the entire site, but there is one page which i want to have *only* a different background color (it will actually be a background-image placed adjacent to the sidebar, but only on that one page).
    – syko is confused because #1 if he changed index.php the changes show up on all pages, and #2 he thinks the “pages” are parts of the database (i.e. ?page=whatever) so he doesn’t know WHAT to edit.

    Beel

    (@beel)

    20 years, 7 months ago

    if is_page(‘blah’) …

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags

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