Making non wordpress pages simailar to Pages and Archives layout pages

How do i switch up
< ?php require_once("/home/......./wp-blog-header.php");? >
to call singlcol rather then the default layout style?

You dont do it that way.

This:

<?php require_once("/home/......./wp-blog-header.php"); ?>

is necessary regardless of what you do for display.

what you need to be looking at is the stuff you pasted above that:

<?php if (is_page() && !is_page("archives")) echo " class=\"singlecol\""; ?>

forget about the ‘if’ stuff and just do the stuff beyond it ..

Really though, the simplest thing to do is to take a page that looks like you want your other page to look. View the source of that page in your browser, and copy that into a blank text file — edit as you like and upload.

Really though, the simplest thing to do is to take a page that looks like you want your other page to look. View the source of that page in your browser, and copy that into a blank text file — edit as you like and upload.

Shockingly simple… I am a little embarrassed I never thought of that before…

This wasn’t even my thread but I thank you for the tip.

Thanks alot. you are right about the simple part. I don’t understand the code part anyways i took out the if and it don’t work.

sometimes if you rename the file it works

Well, I already had that code, and I used it in one of my pages, and it didn’t work… Everytime I’d go to the non-wordpress page, it would show a different theme, not the new theme i’d just created. So I deleted all themes apart from my own, and now it’s wont show any theme and is just coming up with an error saying they can’t find the default theme.
It’s annoying me :\ please help.