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Jun 6, 2010
12:13 pm

Mr Papa

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so did you actually remove the call to get_sidebar() (or other technique) in your custom page template so the sidebar isnt displayed??? thats step one… if its not in your custom page template, you will need to locate where its called (some themes do it in footer.php)…

the wiki is a guideline and not an exact set of things to do… no way it could cover every possible theme implementation…

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Jun 6, 2010
4:45 pm

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I couldnt find it?

here is my forums.php

<?php

Template Name: Forums

<?php

global $options;

foreach ($options as $value) {

if (get_option( $value['id'] ) === FALSE) { $value['id'] = $value['std']; } else { $value['id'] = get_option( $value['id'] ); } }

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php if ($flex_feat_display == "no" OR $flex_feat_pages == "home only" OR $flex_feat_pages == "home and posts") { ?>

<?php if ( is_front_page() AND $flex_feat_display != "no" ) { ?>

<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Feature_top') ) : else : ?>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/feature.php'); ?>

<?php endif; ?><div style="clear:both;"></div>

</div></div><?php } ?>

<?php } else { ?>

<?php if ( function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') && dynamic_sidebar('Feature_top') ) : else : ?>

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/feature.php'); ?>

<?php endif; ?><div style="clear:both;"></div>

</div></div><?php } ?>

<?php if ($flex_adsense_loc1 == "yes") { ?>

<?php

$adsize = $flex_adsense_loc1size;

$adtype = $flex_adsense_loc1type;

include('adsense.php'); ?>

</div>

<?php } else { ?>

<?php } ?>

<?php the_title(); ?>

</h2>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php the_content("<p>__('Read the rest of this page')</p>"); ?>

<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit'), '<p>', '</p>'); ?>

<?php endwhile; endif; ?>

</div></div>

<?php if(comments_open()) : ?>

<?php comments_template('', true); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Jun 6, 2010
5:15 pm

Mr Papa

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did you look in footer.php as I said it might be in there too… and it might be an inlcude using templatepath instead of a get_sidebar…

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Jun 6, 2010
5:21 pm

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There are no get_sidebar commands in the footer.php

I'm a total beginner at this so really don't know what i'm looking for if its not spelled out for me!

Jun 6, 2010
5:34 pm

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sorry, no way to be exact… its something EVERY theme can do differently…

somewhere in your theme, its activating the sidebar… most will do it via get_sidebar() call in the template page file (this is the forum.php) or in footer.php or header.php or other…

some themes will do it with include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php') but it does not have to be called sidebar.php and be called just about anything… yours is including feature.php but guessing thats the top widget area, but maybe its in there too…

how did you get the current stuff in your sidebar? the widgets page? if you look there, you can at least see wht the widget area is called…

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Jun 7, 2010
2:22 am

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The current widgets in the side bar are just drag and drop text boxes.

I'll get in touch with the theme creators, i imagine they would be able to help.

Thanks

Ben

Jun 7, 2010
8:09 am

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there might already be a sidebarless page template too… good luck!

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Sep 29, 2010
6:58 pm

Lynn Hughes

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I know this topic is old, but I find myself trying to do the same thing.

I am using innox theme in wp.

I am not able to change the page template. The only choice is default template.

I have tried several times to create another template, still not showing in the rollout window for templates.

Any suggestions?

Sep 30, 2010
8:22 am

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well, if the only choice (and no idea why that would be) is default template and that template has a sidebar, not much you can do (you could do page check in template for forum and not display sidebar)…

so when you create the page template, have you put the required template header info at the top (please post)? and then uploaded the new template file to your wp theme directory on your server?

a link to your site could help too…

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Sep 30, 2010
3:59 pm

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I got it thanks for the help

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