[Resolved] Custom Sidebar Layout Filter Not Working

[Paul]

Hi Tom and Leo;

I tried using a sidebar filter in my child theme’s functions.php file to remove all sidebars from posts with the category slug ‘student-articles’ but it’s not working; the globally set right sidebar still shows on all these category posts. I flushed the cache too.

Here’s my code:

add_filter( 'generate_sidebar_layout','tu_custom_category_sidebar_layout' );
function tu_custom_category_sidebar_layout( $layout )
{
 	// If we are on a category, set the sidebar
 	if ( is_category( 'student-articles' ) )
 	 	return 'no-sidebar';

 	// Or else, set the regular layout
 	return $layout;

 }

Any ideas? Maybe it’s not compatible with the current GP release? I note the article at https://docs.generatepress.com/article/sidebar-layout/ was last updated on December 24, 2016.

[Leo]

Hi there,

That should still work as nothing has changed there.

Can you link me to a page that’s not working?

Thanks!

[Jamal]

Hi Paul and Leo

I think what needs to be checked here is if is_singular && in_category

[Paul]

You got it Jamal! Thanks so much.

[Paul]

Weird thing happened since I posted this request yesterday. Now my custom page headers aren’t working at all. I removed the above function from my functions file and still no custom page headers.

[Leo]

Hmm the function shouldn’t have anything to do with page headers.

Can you link us to the page?

[Paul]

Update: I can set a GLOBAL page header to all posts successfully, but when I assign a different custom page header style to a specific category of posts, the global page header style is displayed on those category’s single posts instead. Can’t seem to override the global one by category.

[Paul]

Leo,

Click on any post in http://dev.ayurvedacollege.com/articles/ — these are all set to a Global page header (General Articles page header) with a Green background.

Compare to the ‘student-articles’ category posts at: http://dev.ayurvedacollege.com/student-papers/ — this category uses a custom page header (Student Articles page header) with a Blue background. As you can see, the Global Green page header is being rendered instead even though that category has been set to the Student Articles page header.

[Leo]

Hmm this page is just a normal static page and not a post? http://dev.ayurvedacollege.com/student-papers/

[Paul]

Click on any one of the posts listed on that page to see the problem, Leo. Each one of those posts should have a Blue header with white H1 title in it.

General articles (accessed via /articles) should have a Green header with title instead.

[Paul]

I’ve moved this separate issue over to a new thread at https://generatepress.com/forums/topic/new-page-header-not-working-properly/

Will tag the initial problem here as resolved. Thanks.

[Author]

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