http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:33:49 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/select-a-specific-template-not-working#post-7672 Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:30:40 +0000 jrobben 7672@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>Thanks, easy when you know how. lol </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/select-a-specific-template-not-working#post-7663 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:30:10 +0000 em hr 7663@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <blockquote><p>resolving as true for any page, false for home, and posts, categories</p></blockquote> <p>That's beacause all pages use page templates. You need to specify which template.</p> <p><code>echo &quot;is_page_template(&#39;2col-page.php&#39;): &quot;; Var_dump( is_page_template(&#39;2col-page.php&#39;) );</code> </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/select-a-specific-template-not-working#post-7662 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:29:50 +0000 jrobben 7662@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>just so you know; for now, these are the changes to the template page that I want to make</p> <p>// from style.css (line 248) increase width from 560px<br /> #container {<br /> width:700px;<br /> }</p> <p>// style.css (line 347) to display:none or use function to remove<br /> #secondary {<br /> float:left;<br /> width:200px;<br /> }</p> <p>// reposition primary sidebar style.css and make postion fixed or relative to the top right corner of the container (line 335)<br /> #primary {<br /> float:right;<br /> margin-right:20px;<br /> width:200px;<br /> }</p> <p>// remove the comming attractions -<br /> // either display none or turn off function that creates it style.css (line 315)</p> <p>#above-primary {<br /> -moz-background-clip:border;<br /> -moz-background-inline-policy:continuous;<br /> -moz-background-origin:padding;<br /> background:red none repeat scroll 0 0;<br /> color:green;<br /> float:right;<br /> margin:0 20px 10px 0;<br /> padding:5px;<br /> width:400px;<br /> } </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/select-a-specific-template-not-working#post-7661 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:58:08 +0000 jrobben 7661@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>sorry I should have posted the actual code here is function have ran to test for various pages. I commented out all but one testing for is_page_template<br /> I set this up as part of my trouble shooting. </p> <pre><code>function test_code() { // echo &quot;is_single: &quot;; var_dump( is_single() ); // echo &quot;is_home: &quot;; var_dump( is_home() ); // echo&quot;is_page: &quot;; var_dump( is_page() ); /*echo &quot;is_page_template: &quot;; var_dump( is_page_template() ); */ /* echo &quot;is_page_template(&#39;page-template-2col-page-php&#39;): &quot;; Var_dump( is_page_template() ); */ echo &quot;is_page_template(&#39;2col-page.php&#39;): &quot;; Var_dump( is_page_template() ); } add_action(&#39;thematic_belowheader&#39;, &#39;test_code&#39;); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>currently running on <a href="http://www.cookingsalmon.net" rel="nofollow">www.cookingsalmon.net</a> and resolving as true for any page, false for home, and posts, categories </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/select-a-specific-template-not-working#post-7659 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:17:16 +0000 em hr 7659@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>hi jrobben-<br /> I think you may be going about it in the wrong way. try something like: <code>is_page_template(&#39;about.php&#39;)</code><br /> This may helpalso:<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#Is_a_Page_Template" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#Is_a_Page_Template</a></p> <p>-Gene </p> http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/select-a-specific-template-not-working#post-7658 Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:44:00 +0000 jrobben 7658@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>I have been trying to make on the changes to a template that users will select for a particular type of post. but I can not get the an if is_page_template = to mytemplate.php to work. </p> <p>These pages will be made off and on so page id# or something similar will not work for this use. </p>