A reader recently suggested I should expand my forum page to show without the sidebar, so it's more easier to follow.
Since the forum is actually a page where the forums is rendered by a plugin, it is possible to select a template for the page (this is a feature of WordPress, found on edit page screen). Page template allows you to specify a custom look for your page, for example without restrictions in width like I need.
Page template I created looks like this:
<?php
/*
Template Name: Forum
*/get_header();
if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) { the_post(); the_content(); }
get_footer();
?>
You first specify the template name, in this case I used Forum. I then call he header of the theme (get_header) to render the upper menu with navigation.
After is the WordPress 'loop' which will print out my page.
At the end I call the footer code (get_footer). Since my theme actually calls the sidebar in the footer I had to add this code to the footer.php:
<?php if (! is_page('forum') ) get_sidebar(); ?>
The code says do not display the sidebar if the page is forum.
The last thing is to select the forum template for the page and the magic happens - my WordPress forum is now full width.
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:31 AM
?php if (! is_page('forum') || is_page('google-search') ) get_sidebar(); ?
One more try.
December 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 AM
I can't get my post to show the code I put in my footer.php. So I am trying again here it is.
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December 13th, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Awesome this is the post I had been waiting for and it works well for the forum. I am also trying to get google custom search for adsense to work so the results would display in a separate page. I took what you had given on the forum which works for me as displayed here http://www.greenfitnessworld.com/forum. However if you go to http://www.greenfitnessworld.com/google-search the side bars get shifted over for some reason. I created a new template like this for google search.
In the footer.php I added this.
It is probably something I am doing wrong with the OR statement. If someone could respond that would be great.
December 7th, 2008 at 9:06 AM
To Ray above me here...
The "Headspace" plugin says it has the ability to assign different theme styles to pages. You might take a look and see if it will work for you.
Or, you could call a separate style sheet in your custom template. Like this:
@import "http://your-site/name-of-style.css";
Hope that helps!
Pablo
December 1st, 2008 at 9:22 PM
Ne radi ovo...
November 26th, 2008 at 12:29 AM
Like what you are doing with this and want to use it, but I don't see the option when editing (or creating) a page to use a different template. Is there something else I have to turn on to do that?
Thanks,
R