Template & Sidebar

[Joseph Lee]

I have a plugin that uses a page template as it's "landing" template. It builds pages for itself. I want this template to call a specific sidebar. I don't want the primary sidebar. I can't use simple sidebars because these pages are created by the plugin and not listed in the pages area of admin. Nor can I tell the template to use content-sidebar or sidebar-sidebar-content ( you know the settings ).

1. I would like to know how I can still tell the template what to use as far as the structure (content-sidebar-sidebar). I think right now it uses the "default" of the site as it's setting. I have no way to change it. Is there code to dictate the template's output as far as it's structure?

2. I have been using several Studio Press themes. To make a sidebar, I just add it to functions. Then I call the sidebar with PHP. I have never created a sidebar-template.php.  This site looks like it knows what it's talking about but it uses a sidebar-template.php file.

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

Do I need to add a sidebar-"X".php and put code in it, or can I just:

function child_sidebar_logic() {

    if ( is_page_template( 'page_blog.php' ) || is_archive() || is_single() ) {

        remove_action( 'genesis_after_content', 'genesis_get_sidebar' );

        add_action( 'genesis_after_content', 'child_get_blog_sidebar' );

    }

}

and register "blog" as a sidebar in my function like I normally do... I've never had to make a sidebar-"x".php when using the framework before.

[SoZo]

That tutorial should work

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[Joseph Lee]

I expected a one line response. I thought it would at least answer my question.

 

The forum support is depressing. Is there no community on this framework?

[Joseph Lee]

You know what, never mind.

 

There is no reason to provide good customer support. This is not a continual fee basis. I understand that. Perhaps someone at Genesis should consider a subscription with better support. I really regret having purchased the framework. There is no community.

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