Customised sidebar for page and its children

  • I am trying to include my Portfolio page and all of its subpages in the conditional below so they have sidebar.php attached and all other pages on the site have sidebar2.php. Seems like a silly question that should be easy to find online but somehow I managed not to.

    How do I add the subpages to this??

    <?php
if (is_page('portfolio')) { 

 include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');

} else {

 include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php');
 }
 ?>

    Thanks in advance!

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  • You have to expand your code to test for subpages

    See this link to the codex page
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Conditional_Tags#Testing_for_sub-Pages

    The gist is, there is a “parent” field in the database on all pages. Your code tests to see if the current page is the page you are looking for, or has the page you are looking for as its parent.

    Thread Starter kjeft

    (@kjeft)

    Thanks but I still can’t really get it working… I use this

    <?php
	if (is_page('portfolio' || $post->post_parent == '2' )) {
		include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
	} else {
		include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php'); }
 ?>

    in my page.php

    is this wrong?

    I have tried adding this in so many places and different variations but no matter what I do it always displays sidebar2. Do I have to add something to my functions.php as well?

    Thanks for your help, it’s very much appreciated!

    this
    $post->post_parent == '2'

    should most likely be this
    $post->post_parent == 2

    post ID’s are numeric

    oh, I just looked at the codex page and now I see what’s going on

    Apparently its fine to use $post->post_parent == ‘2’

    What is not fine is you are supposed to substitute for ‘2’ the post ID of the portfolio page. The reason your code doesn’t work is you are testing for the wrong parent ID.

    If you don’t know how to find a post or page ID:
    Go to the page edit screen, the one that lists all the pages.
    Point at the name of the Portfolio page. While doing so look at the left side of the browser status bar, at the bottom of the browser window. There you will see a URL displayed. The last part of that URL is the post ID. Very intuitive…

    Thread Starter kjeft

    (@kjeft)

    See this is where I’m confused, this is the correct ID…

    OK, I see the problem – bad eyes

    this
    if (is_page('portfolio' || $post->post_parent == '2' )) {

    should be this
    if (is_page('portfolio') || $post->post_parent == '2' ) {

    Thread Starter kjeft

    (@kjeft)

    Strangely this didn’t work either. Although for some reason when I swapped place of sidebar.php and sidebar2.php it worked! Amazingly confusing!

    Thanks for all your help stvwlf ??

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