Primary Sidebar on One-page only

[mark_s]

Hi guys

I have a design need I can't find an elegant solution to.

I'm using the Genesis Sample theme and want every single page to have full-width content, except one, which will have a primary sidebar. So we're talking home, about, contact are all full-width, my blog page has a sidebar.

I've tried Genesis Simple Sidebars etc. but can't seem to be able to select anything but the default page setting in the New Page tab.

Any ideas?

[Susan]

Set your default setting to be full width, and then on your blog page, set your layout to be content > sidebar.

If you're not seeing layout setting on the new page at all, select the "screen options" at the top of the page.

If you are seeing layout settings, but it only gives you the option to choose full width layout, then make sure that the option for other layouts has not been disabled in your functions.php file. (The sample theme does not have it disabled...)

[mark_s]

Thanks Susan

I have checked my functions.php files and it is not disabled.

Different layouts in "Layout Settings" still un-selectable. It will only use default.

Is there some code and a Custom Body Class I can use (I've seen something suggested around this, mostly to turn them off from being default)? Or can I somehow enable a Sidebar page under Page Attributes > Template dropdown?

Many thanks
Mark

[emasai]

Try this tut by Sridhar
http://sridharkatakam.com/apply-layout-genesis-conditionally/

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[essaysnark]

This tutorial might also be helpful:

http://dreamwhisperdesigns.com/genesis-tutorials/load-sidebar-specific-pages/

It sounds like either your sidebar isn't registered properly, and/or you haven't placed anything in it in the Widgets area (some themes suppress the sidebar when it's empty; not sure if the default Genesis theme does that or not).

[mark_s]

Thanks guys. Forgive my inexperience, but if I wanted to add a sidebar to my blog page only, http://www.example.com/blog/ then I would add the following code to my theme functions.php file. Hesitant to change functions.php without asking the pros first!
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add_action( 'genesis_meta', 'sk_force_layout' );
function sk_force_layout() {

if ( is_singular('blog' ) ) {
add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', '__genesis_return_sidebar_content' );
}

}

[mark_s]

Please no-one use the code above I don't think it's correct. I was wondering if someone could look at this before I put it in my functions.php file to check it is correct?

//* Force content-sidebar layout on blog page only

add_filter( 'genesis_pre_get_option_site_layout', 'content_sidebar_layout_blog_page' );
function content_sidebar_layout_blog_page( $opt ) {
	if ( is_page( 'Blog' ) ) {
		$opt = 'content-sidebar'; 
		return $opt;
	} 

}

Basically, I think this assigns a function to a new term 'content_sidebar_layout_blog_page' which makes the layout 'content-sidebar' to which I assign this functions to the page titled Blog -> is_page( 'Blog' ).

Makes sense but don't want to white screen my site!

[Brad Dalton]

Try this http://wpsites.net/web-design/change-layout-genesis/

Another option is simply to edit the page and choose the sidebar content layout.

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