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Wordpress woes

by goliathseo
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Hello everyone,

First off I want to say thank you so much for help you wonderful warriors have given me already both in IM and programming.

Second, I want to ask your opinion on something I am doing for a client?

I have a site that was done for this client using wordpress. They want a new products page set up. That part is fine I can set up the page and add the plugin and all but they want both of the sidebars gone for this one page only... How hard would it be to do this? It is a 3 column design and I thought the outsource team that I had hired originally for it would have been able to do it in a snap since they created the custom blog template in under 24 hours. Instead of that they are wanting to charge me more! So if anyone can assist it would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely;

Jason

P.s. Heres the link to the site as it is.
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  • Profile picture of the author chaos69
    It should be a breeze to do. You can assign single pages their own templates.

    Pages WordPress Codex

    Why they want to charge you for this, no idea, but it would depend on your agreement and may be classed as additional work. You should be able to modify the template easily enough to remove the sidebars however.
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    Well as an update, I have found a tutorial to get me started and have got the header and footer set up but now I still want to include the content from the test page created in the dashboard. Any suggestions?
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    • Profile picture of the author chaos69
      Did you do this through a page template [as shown in the previous link]?

      If so, just go into the page and then assign it the template you created.

      If you mean inside the page tempalte you are creating; You can use the example on the wordpress page I linked. You need to use the appropriate calls inside the loop.

      E.G (sorry for the bad formatting)

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

      <h1 class="pagetitle" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

      <?php the_content(); ?>

      <?php endwhile; // end of one post ?>
      <?php else : ?>

      <h3><?php _e("Page not Found"); ?></h3>

      <?php endif; ?>
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    Thanks everyone, I just copied the page.php file, renamed it. Now the problem is that I cant seem to get it to span the whole area of the header. Meaning when the page loads I want this page content area to go from corner to corner of the bottom of the nav bar.

    I temporarily have the page template set up on my site just to test but will be putting it on my clients when this gets finished.

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    • Profile picture of the author chaos69
      Originally Posted by goliathseo View Post

      Thanks everyone, I just copied the page.php file, renamed it. Now the problem is that I cant seem to get it to span the whole area of the header. Meaning when the page loads I want this page content area to go from corner to corner of the bottom of the nav bar.
      Im assuming if you've just copied the page.php template, that you have simply removed the call to the sidebars.

      You will need to create and modify a new div element for your content section. At the moment, it will have something to specify the width - you will need to change this to compensate for the lack of sidebars [i.e make it wider].
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    If you are going to use a renamed file, then you will either have to create a separate style.css (use another name) file to reflect the width of your new page.php file OR create a new div id to reflect the changes.

    At the moment your renamed page is still picking up the css style from your normal theme.
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  • Profile picture of the author Aristocratic
    Originally Posted by goliathseo View Post

    Hello everyone,

    First off I want to say thank you so much for help you wonderful warriors have given me already both in IM and programming.

    Second, I want to ask your opinion on something I am doing for a client?

    I have a site that was done for this client using wordpress. They want a new products page set up. That part is fine I can set up the page and add the plugin and all but they want both of the sidebars gone for this one page only... How hard would it be to do this? It is a 3 column design and I thought the outsource team that I had hired originally for it would have been able to do it in a snap since they created the custom blog template in under 24 hours. Instead of that they are wanting to charge me more! So if anyone can assist it would be greatly appreciated.

    Sincerely;

    Jason

    P.s. Heres the link to the site as it is.
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    It's an easy fix (and you'll love it). Get the widget logic plugin, install, go to your sidebars, and for the widgets you have showing, you click on each one and you'll see the widget logic option at the bottom. Here you will put your conditional code: !is_page(ID#) if it is a page, or
    !is_single(ID#) if it is a post whereby the id numbers are, obviously, the id numbers of the page or post that you want to hide the bars from view.. You will have to add it to all the widgets you are using, but after that, none will show.

    It's easier than editing out the sidebar code, but you will still run into the same problem with the text not expanding corner to corner. It basically 'hides' the widgets from view.
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