Stop sidebar content from showing when on that post

$post->ID would typically be holding the current post. Might need global $post in your sidebar.php.

In sidebar.php I have this:

<?
global $post;
$sideid == $post->ID;
if ($sideid != $mainid) {
?>Fake Loop & Video Here<?php } ?>

and then at the bottom of single.php I have:

<?php
global $post;
$mainid == $post->ID;
?>

I’ve tried putting both these inside and outside the loops… but it still shows the video in the sidebar when viewing the main single post.

Sorry, don’t understand what you are trying to accomplish.

On this page for instance…

https://www.ryanpaul.ca/hot-video/griffin-house-the-guy-that-says-goodbye-to-you-is-out-of-his-mind/

I don’t want that video to show in the sidebar when I’m viewing that page, but DO want it to show when I am NOT on that page.

The aim is to not have two of the same video showing on screen.

So you always want the SAME post/video in the sidebar unless it is the post being show in the single.php view?

I want the latest post from the Hot Video category to show in the sidebar…

But I don’t want it to show if the post on the side is the same as the post in single.php view ??

So I can avoid having the same post / video show twice.

It will be something in what you call your fake loop:

if (is_single()) && $post->ID != $id_of_post_in_your_fake_loop {
//display your post
}

If necessary paste that sidebar code in a pastebin and report the link back here.

The problem is I can’t get the id of the side post to cross over into the main loop…

The problem is I can’t get the id of the side post to cross over into the main loop and vice versa… even with using global.

The code I have in the sidebar that shows 1 post from the video category is as follows:

<?php query_posts($query_string); query_posts("showposts=1&cat=21"); ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="right-margin">
<?php the_content();  ?><?php edit_post_link('Edit', '<p>[ ', ' ]</p>'); ?>

</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

I want something like this:

<?php if($fakeloop-postid != $mainloop-postid) { ?>

<?php query_posts($query_string); query_posts("showposts=1&cat=21"); ?><?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?><div class="right-margin"><?php the_content();  ?><?php edit_post_link('Edit', '<p>[ ', ' ]</p>'); ?></div><?php endwhile; ?> 

<?php } ?>

Then just exclude the post in single with

$args = array(
	'showposts' => 1,
	'post__not_in' => array($post->ID),
	'cat' => '21'
  );
query_posts($args);

DUDE YOU ROCKKKKKKKK!

That worked – nearly. But now it ignores the ‘more’ tag I’ve inserted into the post… so when I view ANY page or post on my website, it shows the entire text of the sidebar video.

??

See the note about the more
Template_Tags/the_content

That’s weird because it DOES work if I don’t use the code you gave me.

At the moment I’m hiding the overflow on the div with css.

This sucks because I want a more link below the side vid and can’t now ??

Actually I think this way worked out better… check it out

https://www.ryanpaul.ca/