[Resolved] Different sidebar layout for different blog post pages

[Sharon Steely]

I use the latest posts as my home page. I used the customizer to set the layout for Blog Sidebar Layout to Content (no sidebars) which is what I want for the home page.

For my archives and categories, I want the left sidebar to show. Since these aren’t technically “pages” I don’t see a way to edit to turn off global settings.

Here is my home page currently:
http://elnews-new.unm.edu/

Here is a category page, which I want to display with the left sidebar:
http://elnews-new.unm.edu/index.php/category/online/

This is a dev site.

Thanks for your help!

[bdbrown]

Hi Sharon. You could set the default layout to left sidebar, then use this function in your child theme functions.php file to remove the sidebar on your home page:

add_filter( 'generate_sidebar_layout','generate_custom_sidebar_layout' );
function generate_custom_sidebar_layout( $layout ) {
    // If we are on the home page, no sidebar
    if ( is_home() )
        return 'no-sidebar';

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

Adding PHP: https://generatepress.com/knowledgebase/adding-php-functions/

[Sharon Steely]

Thanks bdbrown! I just implemented your suggestion and it worked!

I appreciate you sharing the code as-is. My knowledge of pHP is very limited.

Thanks for your help!

And thanks for writing an awesome theme Tom!

[bdbrown]

Glad to help 🙂 If you’re interested in learning more about PHP, here are a couple of good tutorials to get you started:

http://www.webmonkey.com/2010/02/php_tutorial_for_beginners/
http://devzone.zend.com/6/php-101-php-for-the-absolute-beginner/

[Sharon Steely]

cool, thanks.

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