Detect a sidebar on a page

Hi @ashworth,

I hope you’re well today! ??

Before delving into the code, could I just ask if there’s some special way you wanted it to display if there’s no custom sidebar specified?

I ask because the plugin wouldn’t display a custom sidebar if none is specified.

Did you have something specific in mind with this though? Could you maybe elaborate?

Looking forward to your reply. ??

Thanks David.

Basically it’s like this. I have these page templates. We’re using this plugin. If a page has “any” sidebar applied to it via the dropdown when editing the page, then the page template needs to output the sidebar. If it doesn’t, then we shouldn’t show the sidebar PHP function at all.

Right now, I have a Bootstrap-based theme that uses span9 (content) and span3 (sidebar). What we want is a way to detect if there was no “Custom Sidebar” set…in which case, we’d prefer to have the content container have span12 (full width) and simply not output the sidebar at all. So we only output and show the sidebar column if there’s actually a sidebar set for said page.

We’re making this theme custom, not bought. So I just need to figure out how to work the condition statements into the page template in just the right way. I’m just not sure which variables, etc. I should be looking at.

Hi @ashworth,

Thank you for your reply.

Could you please try using the solution posted in the following reply to achieve it?

https://premium.wpmudev.org/forums/topic/this-plugin-is-awesome-basically-im-looking-to-make-my#post-693549

Kind Regards,
WPMU DEV

Hey there @ashworth,

I just wanted to check back with you on this as we’ve had a major update to the plugin. Could you give that update a try and let us know if that helps sort this?

Thanks,
David