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smithaa99

Hey, I've been working on this site for a bit

- My client has requested that I make a separate template for the first page so the main content area and the sidebar are not as tall/long.

I achieved that with the main content area, but had tried pasting in the code I had in the sidebar.php file, in place of get_sidebar(), and it makes 2 duplicate sidebars instead of 1 static sidebar.

I want to set a custom div for the sidebar in the index, so that it becomes shorter.

I have already enabled a JS script that makes both the main-content and the sidebar's heights equal to eachother, so that's not the issue, the dynamic PHP stuff is.

Your help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
Adam

TheDoc

Hey Adam - you're going to have to post some code for us to look at!

cnwtx

Hmmmm. Sounds like get_sidebar() is still being called somehow. . .

smithaa99

This is the index code:
http://www.onedollaronebrick.org

<?php
/*
Template Name: One Dollar, One Brick: Home
*/

get_header(); ?>
<div id="content-wrapper">
        <div class="column" id="index-content">
<div id="slogan"><font size="+3">All It Takes Is One Dollar.</font></div>
        
        <?php if ( have_posts() ) while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

					<?php if ( is_front_page() ) { ?>
					<?php } else { ?>	
					<?php } ?>				

						<?php the_content(); ?>
						<?php wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentyten' ), 'after' => '' ) ); ?>
						<?php edit_post_link( __( 'Edit', 'twentyten' ), '', '' ); ?>


<?php endwhile; ?>
        
        </div><!-- END BODY -->
        
        
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

smithaa99

Sidebar PHP Code:

<div class="column" id="sidebar">
<br />
<center><font size="5" color="#09F">
Help Us Help The<br />
People of Nuqui</font>
<br /><br />

<?php
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 10, 'order'=> 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'title' );
$postslist = get_posts( $args );
foreach ($postslist as $post) :  setup_postdata($post); ?> 
	<div>
		<?php the_date(); ?>
		<br />
		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
		<?php the_excerpt(); ?>
	</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

</center>

<div id="primary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
			<ul class="xoxo">
            
            <!-- Feedzilla Widget BEGIN -->

<center></center>

<!-- Feedzilla Widget END -->

<p align="right"><?php
	/* When we call the dynamic_sidebar() function, it'll spit out
	 * the widgets for that widget area. If it instead returns false,
	 * then the sidebar simply doesn't exist, so we'll hard-code in
	 * some default sidebar stuff just in case.
	 */
	if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( 'primary-widget-area' ) ) : ?>
    
    
    
			

			<li id="archives" class="widget-container">
				<h3 class="widget-title"><?php _e( 'Archives', 'twentyten' ); ?></h3>
				<ul>
					<?php wp_get_archives( 'type=monthly' ); ?>
				</ul>
			</li>

			<li id="meta" class="widget-container">
			</li>

		<?php endif; // end primary widget area ?>
			</ul>
		</div><!-- #primary .widget-area -->

<?php
	// A second sidebar for widgets, just because.
	if ( is_active_sidebar( 'secondary-widget-area' ) ) : ?>

		<div id="secondary" class="widget-area" role="complementary">
			<ul class="xoxo">
				<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'secondary-widget-area' ); ?>
			</ul>
		</div><!-- #secondary .widget-area -->

<?php endif; ?>
</p>

</div><!--END SIDEBAR-->
<div style="clear:both;"></div>
</div><!--END CONTENT WRAPPER-->

And here's the style sheet:
http://www.onedollaronebrick.org/style.css

TheDoc

Create a new file called sidebar-home.php. Then on your home template (which shouldn't be index.php, by the way) you can use get_sidebar('home').

smithaa99

http://www.onedollaronebrick.org

This is what happens, even when I insert the get_sidebar('home') and created a sidebar-home.php file

jamy_za

That is happening because you're either calling

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_sidebar('home'); ?>

Together or because your sidebar-home.php contains duplicate code.

smithaa99

Is there a way to figure out where the PHP code is that's calling the sidebar twice?

I don't see <?php get_sidebar(); ?> two times

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