Comments on: 10 Little Known WordPress Theme Tricks

By: Immanuel

Immanuel — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:19:09 +0000

Thanks so much for tip 2 – worked a charm.

By: Mike Goitein

Mike Goitein — Thu, 20 May 2010 02:54:31 +0000

I was trying to do a different sidebar for each category.

This is normally very easy, selectively loading content by putting in the conditional if is_category directly in the sidebar.php.

However, this does not work for the subsequent 3rd level post pages that appear below the main category page.

For this, I needed to find the correct conditional statement to load a different sidebar based on in_category.

After finding the code under #1 on this site:

I was excited to have found a great solution, however, it was throwing an error in single.php, saying there was an extra “}”.

After many hours of struggle, I finally debugged it, so it should read like this:

the issue was the missing a trailing “;” after the final get_sidebar() statement.

While I really appreciate the help with this code, I’m surprised no one else tried this out & had any problem with the syntax issues.

By: How to make the most out of your sidebar — WPCandy — WordPress Themes, Plugins, Tips, and Tricks

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:00:49 +0000

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88 Unmissable Wordpress Links: Theme Thursday | Hi, Im Grace Smith — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:47:00 +0000

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By: Lillan

Lillan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:05:35 +0000

Hi, where do i put the code

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 04:07:59 +0000

Thank you for this article. The bit on get_comments_number() should really be in wordpress documentation. I’m used to Livejournal, where if there are 0 comments, there’s a link to respond to the post.

By: How to: create a dynamic sidebar

How to: create a dynamic sidebar — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:50:22 +0000

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By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:24:23 +0000

Thanks Clark! I love articles like this assuming that they are actually useful and not already published everywhere else. Hopefully i will have enough for a part 2 to this, but probably not anytime soon.

By: clark

clark — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:18:36 +0000

I see five articles a day with a title something just like this one. And usually they are so bad I can’t be bothered to even read them. That being said, congratulations. You’ve actually shown me some things I hadn’t previously seen anywhere. Great article.

By: Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:24:23 +0000

@Michael – Correct. I ran across this for a client that wanted to disable and remove previously approved comments (she was fed up with dealing with them) completely from her posts – but still wanted them in her admin panel to view as historical data. That’s what this code does – it doesn’t show any comment data if the post has comments turned “off” within the post-edit screen.

BTW: Nice WP site you have there… keep up the good work!