Make specific blog posts with smaller sidebars, leaving main posts intact.
 

Hi, I've been reading threads on making alternate templates for pages on atahualpha, but I can't seem to find how to do something similar but with posts. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help.

I want most of my normal blog posts with sidebars of a certain width which is normal.

Every now and then I want to do a post that does not contain those sidebars (or has much smaller sidebars) which will allow for when I use very wide images in a post which would otherwise overstretch the sidebars

I can manipluate normal html and php for basic websites in which I would simply use another dreamweaver template, but am not sure how to create another POST template or how to implement it in Atahualpha.

Can anyone give a bit of a walkthrough on how to do this. I'd be really grateful. If this is not possible, then instructions on exactly how to do it with pages will also help.

Thanks

I'm not sure if this is doable. Atahualpa treats the page as a big table with three rows:
HEADER
MIDDLE and the
FOOTER

The Middle row has one to five columns depending on the number of sidebars you are using:
LEFT - LEFT INNER - CENTER - RIGHT INNER - RIGHT

each of these is a cell in the table

the CENTER is built with the maximum number of posts. (this generally determines the height of the row,unless one of the sidebars has a bunch of widgets and they take more space than the center)

The width of the sidebars can be set, but there's no way I can see that you could make an area of it smaller since each sidebar is actually a table cell

hope this explains it and helps:(

First of all, you can create specialized templates for post categories as well as pages. You just have to put a special name for it at the top of the file. I copied the index.php file from Atahualpa, put in the custom code I wanted, and put this at the top:
Then I named the file my-teen-health-template.php and uploaded it to the Atahualpa theme folder.

But your sidebar question is another matter. In the theme options/configure sidebars area, you can have the various sidebars show up or not on certain pages or categories. For your situation, I guess you could create a new category for the post you're talking about, and untick its box for all or certain of the sidebar types. If you want smaller sidebars, use the inner ones.

Thanks a lot for your replies.

I will see if I can use a new catagory temeplate to work round it.

Cheers

:)