Left/Right or No Sidebar


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Scott

Posted: 12/4/2009
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Hi,

I've searched through the forum for some time and have found posts on how to create additional page templates etc, but I cannot find if anyone has requested if it's possible to have sidebars on either side of the page or no sidebar at all.

I tried to create three separate page layouts, One left, one right and one with no sidebars. I copied page.php of no and right sidebars into the left ones themes and renamed all page?.php. I added

<?php
/*
Template Name: new template
*/
?>

to each one and renamed them left, right or no depending on the page layout.

I removed reference to sidebar1 in the css thinking that is all that would be needed but I still cannot get the widgets on the sides of the pages i'd like.

Have I missed something?

Regards - Scott.
 
Dave Porter

Posted: 12/5/2009
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Hi Scott,

I'm not 100% sure I'm with you, so let's assume we are starting from scratch.

Under the Layout menu, there is a control called Columns.
Clicking this displays the layout options available.
This includes 2 column ( sidebar left or right )
3 columns ( sidebar left or right or both right )
1 column ( with of course no sidebars )
and on top of that at the bottom is a 'width option' control to modify the widths.

So this provides you with a good deal of flexibility !

HTH, Dave Porter


 
Scott

Posted: 12/5/2009
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Hi Dave,

Thanks for your reply. I want to be able to have the option of;
1. 3 Column - Left and right widgets either side of the body
2. 2 Column - Left or Right Widget placing or
3. 1 Column. - No Widgets, body as full width

I'm still learning CSS and am not sure how to create such a setup in Artisteer.

I tried again this time creating a site with 3 columns. I have copied/pasted page.php and renamed them left, right or no widgets. Added the coding so I see the page templates in the drop downs under attributes but still cannot get it to work correctly.

With the new attempt;
1. I get a correct display on 3 column.
2. On 2 Column, no left, it displays no left or right widgets but the body text at full width and the widgets at the footer (displayed also full width)
3. 2 Column, no right shows the widgets on the left, none on the right but a blank section where the widgets should be.

I've thrown the example up online at http://maneyactspics.com/demo/ if you need to take a look.

Cheers, Scott.

 
Dave Porter

Posted: 12/5/2009
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Hi Scott,

Are you mixing page layouts in the one wordpress site ?

If so there are discussion on this in these forums - perhaps do a search and find other threads that have covered this.

Also do the same on the WP forums, as this is sounding a bit more general and not Artisteer specific !

cheers Dave


 
Rick

Posted: 12/24/2009
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Hello Scott,
Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; InfoPath.2)
Timestamp: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 07:44:33 UTC


Message: Object doesn't support this property or method
Line: 63
Char: 1
Code: 0
URI: http://maneyactspics.com/demo/wp-content/plugins/wp-content-slideshow/scripts/slideshow.js

This is the error message i get from your page on right column widget missing. It looks like you css reference is incomplete but i could be wrong.