jonimueller
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You’ll have to create a separate page template for each custom sidebar you want running.
Once you’ve done that, you need to create your custom sidebar templates. Name them something that allows you to remember what they contain.
For example, let’s create three different sidebars in addition to the default sidebar.php:
contact-sidebar.php
about-sidebar.php
custom-sidebar.phpIn order to pull those in on the page we want them, we’ll need to create three different pages. They don’t have to be different other than the call to the specific sidebar, but they can if you need them to.
Don’t forget to put the custom page code at the top of each, like this:
<?php /* Template Name: Custom Page Name */ ?>Then for each custom page template, find this code:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>And substitute this instead, using the name of the desired sidebar template you just created:
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/custom-sidebar.php'); ?>That way, each custom page has its own custom sidebar. There may be an easier way to do this, but that’s how I’ve done it on my site as well, with a custom sidebar for my contact info on my Contact Us page. 🙂
HTH.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All my images are brokenDisable the “get the image” plugin and then try a test post with another image (or one that already exists in your media gallery). If it works fine, then there is something wrong with the “get the image” plugin or maybe it’s just not set up correctly.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I Can't Log on to my Admin to edit my blog.To both Bella and Thereo … what exactly was the last thing you did right before you couldn’t get into your site? Were you performing an upgrade? Installing a plugin? Fooling around with WordPress’s settings? Editing the theme templates? Sometimes that’s a big clue as to what might have happened?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All my images are brokenNorm, the second URL is correct and I am wondering why it’s appending “?getfile”. When you are uploading images from your computer to insert into a post, what steps are you taking? What are you clicking? It should be “Insert File URL” if I’m not mistaken.
What theme are you using? I am thinking maybe it’s a theme that’s using the Tim Thumb image script or is in some other way attempting to manipulate your post images.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I Can't Log on to my Admin to edit my blog.Did you recently attempt to change your permalink structure? You may want to FTP into your WP root and rename .htaccess to something like .htaccess-hide and see if you can then access your WP admin area. Usually when you get server errors like that, it’s a bad .htaccess file or some permissions are set incorrectly.
With regard to WordPress and its Pages (note the capitalization when used specifically in the context of a WordPress Page, as opposed to a WordPress Post [and not when referring to a web page]), those are static, as opposed to WP Posts, which are linear. They evolve, change, age, march across time, new stuff floats to the top, pushing older posts down. Pages .. are there to stay, until you delete them. WP doesn’t touch them in the scheme of things. They are meant to contain fairly static, unchanging content. (You can edit them of course and change your content at will, just as you would an HTML page.)
But they do behave differently in context with Posts and you must understand this in order to get the full benefit of WP, to appreciate its flexibility and power, and to understand its templating system.
And the fact that you were running a MAMP server, and weren’t even aware of it, I’m pretty speechless. It’s like waking up at the bottom of a canyon and not realizing you were driving a car off a cliff.
And blaming WP for the failure of your web server is wrong headed; it’s not WP’s fault about that. Once you get up and running, I am sure your impression of it will change. Cheers.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No HelpHelpline #1:
http://www.google.comHelpline #2:
http://www.wordpress.org/support/Helpline #3:
http://codepoet.com/Helpline #4:
http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-pro
(Be sure to state your budget so as not to waste your time or anyone else’s.)HTH
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Design Feedback – Before ImplementationThe only thing that I found jarring and out of place were:
(1) “Tips, Reviews…” tagline. I don’t like that font; it’s too hard to read. Keep a nice sans-serif font for that; sometimes you can have too many fonts going on.
(2) On the comp (image), you had images next to Home, Portfolio, About Me, Contact Me … but I see on the live link, they are gone. They are fine to have, but I think they should be kept on the same x-axis as the social icons. The way they are on the comp looks out of place, almost like a coding mistake, know what I mean? 🙂
And I’d shorten About Me and Contact Me to just About and Contact. 🙂
And you might want to fix that “parse error” in your stylesheet.
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fadamhuxtable.com%2FOther than that, nice and clean.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Design Feedback – Before ImplementationWhy the huge honking watermark all over the jpeg? And I don’t understand the presence of the image since you provided the live site link. Aren’t they the same design? What am I supposed to critique?
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How can I design this theme (link included)And it’s “widgets,” BTW, not “wedgets.” In case there’s a need for you to inspire trust. 🙂
You can place widgets just about anywhere on your site as long as you declare the widgets in your functions.php file and then provide the hook (the code) in your template. Here’s a good article about widgetizing WP templates:
http://outthinkgroup.com/tips/wordpress-templates-multiple-widget-locations/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: unable to edit site in firefoxWhat kind of error message are you receiving?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hide a pageYou mean just not appear on the user menu? Use the plugin Exclude Pages:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: CSS not loading on ANY wordpress pageAre you on a Windows machine? Can you ping the site? Do a
tracerton it? I know router issues are the devil to run down and it sounds likt there’s something not letting your network access the Internet.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to intergrate Read More Image?Try this, in your index.php file:
<?php the_excerpt (); ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" class="more-button"> </a>And here’s the css to style the button:
.more-button { background: url(images/more-button.gif) no-repeat 0 0; cursor: pointer; width: 77px; height: 22px; font-size: 0; line-height: 0; text-indent: -9999px; display: block; }Of course you can name your class anything, and provide the image of your choosing in your stylesheet.
HTH
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Theme CustomizationHi, Ruthie. You will soon begin to love WP; it’s very flexible and easy to design for and tweak once you learn some of the basics.
For your question, and for your client at issue, I think the best thing to do is look for a theme that has most of the components you are looking for. While there are a lot of free themes out there (and we ourselves have released many in years past), premium themes seem to be the way to go. I’ve been known to buy a premium theme simply for the privilege of poring over the code.
The risk you take with downloading a free theme is (1) you don’t know the skill level of the person who created the theme unless you investigate the theme author ahead of time, and sometimes free themes end up in theme repositories (and often Base64-encoded) and it’s often difficult to tell who authored the theme; and (2) there’s generally no support when you run into trouble.
There are several great premium theme developers out there, and I also recommend ThemeForest. The themes there are solidly designed so that you can be sure the foundation you build on is correct. (There’s nothing worse than inadvertently picking up someone else’s bad coding or design habits!)
Once you have a few WP sites under your belt, you’ll want to bone up on creating a theme from scratch or from a WP wireframe.
Some reputable theme developers include Brian Gardner, Justin Tadlock, Chris Pearson (Thesis), Nick Roach (Elegant Themes), and Phil Moore (Graph Paper Press), to name a few.
HTH