Idea Detail Page – Remove Sidebar

Hi @lifeisbeta,

You could use CSS to hide it or you could create a custom template file called single-idea.php in your theme and remove the code referencing the sidebar. The later option is the more legit way to do it but it takes more effort.

You can refer to these links for more info:

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/template-files-section/custom-post-type-template-files/
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/create-custom-single-post-templates-for-specific-posts-or-sections-in-wordpress/

Thanks,

Great! Thanks. I purchased the Pro plugin. So far so good.

Oh wonderful, thanks for your support ??

If you send a link to your single idea page I can probably quickly give you the CSS code necessary if you aren’t familiar with CSS. Thanks,

Thanks. I don’t think hiding the sidebar is going to work – the main left column didn’t expand to fill the space. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get FTP to work on the site. I’d send you a link, but it’s behind my company’s firewall.

I think I can figure it out though today.

The real thing I think I’d like your advice on is how to best utilize this plugin. We want guest users to be able to submit/vote, but the whole creating users automatically is seeming to cause issues. It’s for company use, and I don’t think I’m worried at all about anyone gaming the system.

Hi @lifeisbeta,

What do you mean by causing issues exactly when you said “but the whole creating users automatically is seeming to cause issues”?

Thanks,

A few things seem to be happening.

1. After a guest submits an idea, then comes back later to vote for ideas, they get a modal to fill out first name, last name, and email. After doing this, the modal goes away, but the vote does not take effect.

2. On the ideas list page, some ideas show one status, but on the idea detail page, it shows a different status.

Do you offer any paid support programs. Maybe a phone call?

On your second point, can you please provide links to this?

In the first issue, if someone is logged in or they created an idea previously on the IP address they won’t be prompted for their first and last name. After you login you need to then cast the vote.

Thanks, I’ll move the ideas back to the beginning status, and try to move them again to see if they are the same between list and single. I’d send a link, but I can’t since it’s behind a firewall. I could do a screenshare though.

Also, I created a single-idea.php file in my theme’s folder. How do I associate the new template with the single idea page?

Hi @lifeisbeta,

The association happens from the file name single-idea.php the “idea” part of the filename refers to the custom post type called idea which IdeaPush utilises. This is detailed in the link I share before, more specifically here: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/template-files-section/custom-post-type-template-files/#custom-post-type-templates