Problems with the_content() template tag
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I have the following layout I want to achieve:
<div class="container"> <h1>HEADING</h1> <p>PARAGRAPH 1</p> (Custom widget area with three Bootstrap cards side-by-side...for the sake of space, I'm not including the code) <p>PARAGRAPH 2</p> </div>
Ideally, I would like to hard-code the div and the h1 into the page.php template file, call a custom widget area in page.php (utilizing dynamic_sidebar()), and use the_content() in page.php to display paragraph 1 and 2 from the content entered in the WordPress Dashboard.
Here is where I run into a problem. In page.php, I would have the following code (slightly simplified, but this is the gist of it):
<div class="container"> <h1>HEADING</h1> <?php the_content(); ?> <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'card_widget_area' ); ?> </div>
I want paragraph 1 to be before the sidebar and paragraph 2 to be after the sidebar, yet, when I utilize the_content(), I get both paragraphs before the sidebar. Similarly, if I were to call the_content() after the sidebar, both paragraphs would display instead of only the second paragraph as desired. Is there a way to display only one of the paragraphs at a time using the_content() template tag? And can you use the_content() template tag more than once in a single template file?
Perhaps I am missing something or making things far more confusing than they need to be. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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