WHP3 Sidebar not showing on Default Template

[etinteractive 0]

Set up a page as Default Template. Configured the specific page to show "short sidebar" . Short sidebar has Text widget "XXXXX". The sidebar doesn't display anything on the page. Ideas?

[etinteractive 0]

If i configure the "MAIN SIDEBAR" with text, it shows up on the default template, even tho in the admin panel on that specific page i have "the_sidebar" variable set to "secondary".

[cmunns 16]

Hmmm Can you share a link?

[etinteractive 0]

I do not have a public link I can post.

[etinteractive 0]

anyone else have this issue?

[cmunns 16]

Did you double check to make sure your options are being saved correctly and that the short sidebar is selected. I'm sure you probably have but I don't know how to help if I can't see what's going on.

[etinteractive 0]

I can give you details offline, but not in public. but yea. I set the page to "secondary" and nothing appears. set sidebar back to Main and it appears. I set in admin under SIDEBAR Options, the default sidebar to be Secondary. which works. but if i edit an individual page and select MAIN or Short, that one page still loads "Secondary" The page override doesn't work.

[etinteractive 0]

Ok, so i've done more testing. It works for a Page. But if i create a page called "blog" and then set WP for my Posts Page to be on page "blog". Editing the sidebar does nothing.

[Andrew 207]

This is because the WordPress or blog page in WordPress doesn't support custom fields on a page by page basis. This is how we control which sidebar shows up where... If you'd like, we can show you how to hack the sidebar.php file to get it to do what you want...

[etinteractive 0]

Fire Away! I'm all ears :-)

[cmunns 16]

In sidebar.php modify the line of code from this: ` <?php if(pagelines('the_sidebar', $post->ID) == 'secondary'):?> ` to this: ` <?php if((pagelines('the_sidebar', $post->ID) == 'secondary') || (is_home())):?> `

[etinteractive 0]

Thanks for the help!! works great.

[etinteractive 0]

Another issue cropped up, now when I click an actual post title and am inside a individual blog post, the sidebar goes back to "main". Same with any Archives/Category link.

[cmunns 16]

for single post pages this shouldn't happen. For archives and cats you can also add more conditionals to the same statement as before e.g. is_category() and is_archive()

[etinteractive 0]

Do you have an IM or email, i will show you offline.

[cmunns 16]

did you add those conditionals and it not work?

[etinteractive 0]

It works for all of them EXCEPT when I click on a single blog entry ie /2010/02/hello-world/ ** update ** adding is_single() fixes the issue i am having.