hide sidebar on pages?

If you want to get rid of the sidebar on some pages you’ll need to make another page type.

I have one I call “blank” and it doesn’t have a sidebar. Just the header, content, and then the footer.

I copied the default “page” template in wordpress, gave it a new name (blank.php) and then added this to the top of the file

<?php
/*
Template Name: blank
*/
?>

Look in there for something about sidebar. In my file it said:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

Delete that line.

Save it. Upload it back to your theme.

Then when you go into the WordPress admin to Pages > edit select your page. Look for Page Template. There should be a dropdown. You want to select blank. Save and view your page.

Hope that helps.

Or you can use conditional comments in the sidebar>

<?php if (is_page('about-me')) { ?>
widgets code
<? } elseif (is_page('8')) { ?>
widgets code
<? } elseif (is_page('blog-page')) { ?>

<? } else { ?>

<? } ?>

Is your blog page an actual page, or the default blog page? If it’s default then you’ll want to declare your pages first, and let the } else { part define what shows on the blog page. If blog is a page then just fill in it’s ID or slug in one of the elseif’s

thank you both for your comments but i think i would try the conditional comments. Thats a great help. Thank you for your help.

Page Template Dropdown Does not exist??

I did re-activate the theme as the FAQs suggested, but it still does not apprear.

My newly create template appears in the list when I select

Appearance >> Editor

HOWEVER, it just has the filename, page_no_sidebar.php and doe snot have the title of “Template” not sure if this makes a difference.

Any help?
Thanks!