Conditional Tags Feature Request

I’m probably missing the obvious, but why not just do multiple Page Templates?

I don’t know much about that, but isn’t sorta the same thing? Pardon my ignorance LOL.

Well, if your goal is to have variable/differing content on assorted Pages… instead of using conditional tags and a common Page template, just create multiple Page templates, each with the necessary/desired customizations.

See the Pages link for more, section 7 discusses templates.

Hope that helps.

So let’s say that I have six child pages for the portfolio category, I create a template called client.php and use that template for each of the pages under portfolio. Then, I use that instead of the if statement. That’s how I understood that link you sent.

I figured it out.

What I did was create a template called client.php, and inserted this code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Client
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="content">
<div id="contentLeft">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
<div class="post">
<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></h2>
<div class="entrytext">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this page &raquo;
'); ?>
</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; endif; ?>
</div>
<?php include ('sidebar-client.php'); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>


Then I created a file called sidebar-client.php, and inserted this code:


<div id="sidebar">
<div id="contentRight">
<!--first/center column-->
<?php
// portfolio page/sub-pages
if (is_page()) {
echo '<h4>Noteworthy Notes</h4>
These examples are a small smattering of both my personal and professional work in recent years.
Feel free to read more <a href="/about/" title="About Me">about me</a> or <a href="/wp-content/docs/justinkozuchresume.pdf" onclick="javascript:urchinTracker(/downloads/resume/);" title="My CV">download my CV</a> for my career history.
'; }
// That's all, folks!
?>
<!--first/center column-->
</div>
</div>


I edited all the pages for the portfolio items to use the template called client and was able to consolidate my custom sidebar into those pages, using 1 conditional, and not 6 like I was doing before. Easy peasy. Thanks Handy.

Rock on – glad you got it all sorted out. ??

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Happy blogging!

but just so you know… and when you don’t want a custom page template, you can use conditional code like so:

if (is_page(3) || is_page(4) || is_page(11)) {

whatever

}
else ....

to add the same thing for multiple pages.

hth