[SOLVED] Widgetising a ""Page" Page" - I just simply cannot work it out
Hi everyone,
Wondering if anyone can help me solve this, as after spending literaly hours trying to understand and implement all the advice I am reading, I still cannot figure out what I should be doing... So, here we go: I would like to add widgets to a ""Page" Page". I do read a lot of blogs, which I would like to share with my visitors; but because of the quantity, I would like to avoid using the sidebars as the display mechanism. Instead, I would like to display the list of blogs, with their respective headlines, which I can get through their respective RSS feeds. I read the thread: http://forum.bytesforall.com/showthread.php?t=330 which I started to follow. Went to my functions.php and added: register_sidebar(array( 'name'=>'RSS Feed Page -> Widgets', 'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">', 'after_widget' => '</div></div>', 'before_title' => '<div class="widget-title"><h3>', 'after_title' => '</h3></div><div class="widget-content">', )); before the following line: } // Load functions Then went into my WP widget admin section, and great the new widget area was there. Next the thread says, I need to add "wherever you want to have that widget area in the template": <?php if ( is_front_page() ) { ?> <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(5) ) : endif; ?> <?php } ?> to enable the following ""page" page": http://www.dombey.com/blog/blogs-i-read/. The conditional being that I only want those widgets displayed on that page... and this is where I am stuck, not even knowing if I am following the right steps... 1 - I cannot find any place in the theme admin area to work on the ""Page" Pages". All I found was dealing with "Post" pages, under the "Post & Pages" area; except the "Edit POST/PAGE INFO ITEMS" area, which refers to ""Page" Pages" but do not seems to allow PHP code inserts. 2 - I cannot find any PHP files in the directory related to ""Page" Page" 3 - So, I have no idea where to add the conditional code, since I cannot find those page type admin area and files 4 - Since I don't know where to go and what to do next, I am not even able to give the right name to the page in the conditional statement if ( is_WHAT_PAGE NAME() ) Anyway, if you have a minute, look at the page I gave above and I am sure that you'll understand what I am trying to do. Currently, it's just HTML inserted for illustration purposes. But that's not what I want for sure... This is a work-in-progress site, so far from being finalised, and definitely not ready for release. Hope the above made sense... if not and you can help, just ask me questions ;) If you indeed can guide me, please don't be too technical... hehehe! Many thanks, Cheers, Olivier |
In the new theme version you can add widget areas with a new function, see "Add new widget areas"
There is no page.php template in Atahualpa but you can create one by copying index.php as page.php To limit something to a specific static page use <?php if ( is_page('Page Title') ) { ?> ... <?php } ?> Instead of 'Page Title" you can also use the page ID or the page slug, the part of the URL that refers to that particular page: yoursite.com/page-slug/ See http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags for more conditional tags |
Hi Flynn,
You're a star and/or a genius...! :p Perfect, worked like a dream... Cheers, O |
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