Digital Raindrops

If your theme supports custom menus like the twenty eleven theme then you can just add the categories to the menu tree, like this test website, all the menu items are just categories selected in the custom menu screen.

Screenshot: Admin > Appearance > Menus

The home page can then be a static page or a latest posts page.

HTH

David

Great, I have updated the example above, interesting topic, is this to prove that the user has visited the website and generated a ‘Promo Code’, how is it then used, it could be used as a download check I expect?

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David

Hi,
The client would not edit the files and the values should not be hard coded.

Options
Text Widget:
Use a text widget in the footer widget area, add the details in the content area of the text widget, you can use html tags in a text widget, then show the client how they can change the number.

Theme Setup Page:
Create a theme setup page with the text boxes you require, the client can then update them as and when they need to, this would mean you will code the header and footer to get the values from the setup array.

Choose a Theme:
Different themes will have options, some may have shortcodes or functions to do what you want “out the box”.

What theme are you using?

HTH

David

Also have a look at custom post types, this is an ideal candidate for custom post types, there are a number of plugins for custom post types, this plugin looks like it will do all you want “out the box”, it is recently updated.

That way you are not adding tables to the database and all the WordPress API functions are there to be used.

Regards

David

Widget logic if you want to switch off single sidebar widgets.

Another Way:
Create your new sidebars in functions.php as per your code above.

Your sidebar code should be in a file called sidebar.php, if not then copy it to a file sidebar.php

Open sidebar.php and save as sidebar-{slug}.php so this could be sidebar-home.php, sidebar-one.php, sidebar-single.php, sidebar-archive.php, sidebar-search.php, sidebar-members.php, sidebar-foo.php, sidebar-bar.php, sidebar-foobar.php, anything you want after the hyphon ‘-‘ all lowecase single word.

Inside the copied file just change the dynamic_sidebar({$slug-name}) for your new sidebar.

Then in the templates files call the different sidebars with or without a conditional statement.

Example page.php

<?php if (is_page('1,2')) : ?>
   <?php get_sidebar('one'); ?>
<?php else : ?>
   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

Example single.php

<?php get_sidebar('single'); ?>

Example search.php

<?php get_sidebar('search'); ?>

Example archive.php

<?php get_sidebar('archive'); ?>

Example index.php

<?php if ( is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
   <?php get_sidebar('members'); ?>
<?php else : ?>
   <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>

HTH

David

Hi,
Creating the post type:
I have a custom post type called information this is created with code in functions.php

The template page:
I open single.php and save this as information.php

The content: (loop)
If there is a loop-single.php or content-single.php file, I open and save this as loop-information.php or content-information.php

Within these files I can add a body class, post class, or add any page specific changes like the post thumbnail etc:

The code snippet above is also in the functions.php file, this tells WordPress to use information.php for the ['post type'] == 'information'

Conclusion:

The reason is because I will be styling this post type a certain way

Looking again at the template heirarchy and your question, if it is a custom post type, just forget the code, open single.php and save it as single-{$posttype}.php (like: single-information.php)

Do as above with the loop file if you are required to change the content layout.

Then just add your styles classes to the new files.

HTH

David

Hi,
When you say a certain post type do you mean a custom post type, is this a page, a post or a custom post type?

When we know this we will be able to help more.

Also have a look at the template heirarchy, as single-{$posttype}.php would work, lets use film as a post type then, single-film.php could be used.

For a specific page page-{$slug}.php so page-news.php, or page-{$id}.php, page-234.php

Then you can use the post_class(‘my-class’) in the new file just for that single instance, I wrote about post classes recently so this post may help.

I have a custom post type in a child theme called information, I just copy single.php as information.php then add in functions.php

/* Information Posts Template selection - a single.php just for our information posts */
 function dr_info_template_redirect() {
	global $wp;
	if ($wp->query_vars['post_type'] == 'information') {
		if( file_exists( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/information.php') ) {
			include( get_stylesheet_directory() . '/information.php');
			die();
		}
	}
 }
add_action("template_redirect", 'dr_info_template_redirect');

HTH

David

Use a text compare like examdiff to find your changes, if you have a copy the original theme files, and create the child theme from the changes.

Sample child themes functions.php, /* comments to help what goes where */

<?php
/* This Section Will Run first before the parents functions.php */

add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'post_theme_setup' );
if ( !function_exists( 'post_theme_setup' ) ):
function post_theme_setup() {
	/* This Section Will Run Last after the parents funtions.php */

}
endif;

HTH

David