rmk80

Hi, see if this works for you:

<?php
$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$s = get_query_var('s');
query_posts("s=$s&cat=-9,-14&paged=$page");
?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<?php the_title(); ?><br /><br />
<?php endwhile;endif;?>
<?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Old Updates') ?>
<?php previous_posts_link('Latest Updates &raquo;') ?>

what code do you use to get the page heading?

delete either this line:

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/podcastsidebar.php"); ?>

or this line:

<?php get_sidebar('podcastsidebar.php'); ?>

because they both call for the same sidebar, so that’s why you get it twice.

Hi,

try this instead:

$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
query_posts("cat=16&paged=$page");

see if this solves it!

Hi,
your theme does indeed have just one line to call for both the sidebars. that means that your theme’s sidebar.php must contain the code for both the sidebars. it will probably look something like this:

<div id="sidebar1" class="sidecol">
       code for sidebar 1
</div>
<div id="sidebar2" class="sidecol">
       code for sidebar 2
</div>

So you now you need to split them so we can put your content in betweens them. put this part of code:

<div id="sidebar1" class="sidecol">
       code for sidebar 1
</div>

in a new file called leftsidebar.php and put the other part of the code:

<div id="sidebar2" class="sidecol">
       code for sidebar 2
</div>

in a new file called rightsidebar.php
Note that both files start with a div and end with a closing div tag.(eg <div>..</div>)

Now you have to change your index.php ( and page.php, category.php, tag.php, search.php and so on…) so that

<?php get_sidebar();?>

gets replaced by two calls for our new two sidebar files. Your index.php will probably look like this afterwards:

<?php get_header();?>

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/leftsidebar.php"); ?>

<div id="main">

	<div id="content">

	    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

	        <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

            <p class="date">

              <span class="month">

                <?php the_time('M') ?>

              </span>

              <span class="day">

                <?php the_time('d') ?>

              </span>

              <span class="year">

                <?php the_time('Y') ?>

              </span>

              </p>

            <h2 class="title"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

            <div class="meta">

				      <p>Published by <?php the_author_posts_link() ?>  under <?php the_category(',') ?> <?php edit_post_link(); ?></p>

			      </div>

			      <div class="entry">

              <?php the_content(__('Continue Reading »')); ?>

              <?php wp_link_pages(); ?>

              <p class="post-tags">

                <?php if (function_exists('the_tags')) the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?>

              </p>

      			</div>

            <p class="comments">

              <?php comments_popup_link(__('No comments yet'), __('One comment so far'), __('% responses so far')); ?>

            </p>	          

	        </div>

      <?php endwhile; else: ?>

          <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>

      <?php endif; ?>

      <p align="center"><?php posts_nav_link(' - ','« Prev','Next »') ?></p>

	</div>

  <?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/rightsidebar.php"); ?>

  <?php get_footer();?>

Notice the differences:

just after

<?php get_header();?>

i put this line for your left sidebar:

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/leftsidebar.php"); ?>

and i replaced

<?php get_sidebar();?>

by

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/rightsidebar.php"); ?>

this should be the trick to achieve what you want, although you still might need to change some style properties in your css file(like align, margins, etc,).

Hi,

the first thing you need to do is to create the theme file that is going to define the ‘special’ sidebar. The easiest way of doing this would be to copy the current sidebar.php and rename it to (for example) new_sidebar.php

next you need to alter this new_sidebar.php to fit your specific needs.

now you need to make sure this new sidebar is linked to the specific category (category-3 or podcast in your case). There are two ways of doing this:

1) if you already have a category-3.php file in your theme’s directory you only need to replace the

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

code with this code :

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH."/new_sidebar.php"); ?>

This is all.

2) if your theme does not have a category-3.php file, you need to edit the category.php file and replace this code:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

with this code:

<?php if(is_category('3')){include(TEMPLATEPATH."/new_sidebar.php");}else{get_sidebar();};?>

I hope this helps you solve your problem.

Hi,

it looks like you forgot to put the

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

code in your theme’s index.php

Because the

<div id="sidebar">

is missing in every post’s source, i suppose this is not a style (css) issue but rather a theme issue.