I have a page called “Blog”. It’s set as the page to display the posts (duh…)
I have created two fields for Sidebar control:
– use_sidebar 1/0 (true/false)
– choose_sidebar (10 different choices).
The fields are in a meta box and visible when:
Page Type is equal to Posts Page
or
Post Type is equal to post
or
Post Type is equal to page
page.php contains this:
<?php if($use_sidebar) { get_sidebar(); } ?>
sidebar.php contains this:
<?php
$use_sidebar = get_field('use_sidebar');
$choose_sidebar = get_field('choose_sidebar');
dynamic_sidebar($choose_sidebar);
?>
It works just fine on Pages. I can choose sidebars and they show up as expected. However on the “Blog” page, i.e. the page that display the posts loop, does not show a sidebar at all. I’ve added echo $choose_sidebar; to the “Blog”-page in order to see if anything returned. It returns null.
It works fine on individual posts (single.php contains the variables and the if-statement for get_sidebar() )
I’m not very new to WordPress, but PHP isn’t my strongest area of expertise.. 🙂
Thankful for any help.
Hi @Patrik
When you select a page to act as the ‘Blogs’ archive page, the global $post object does not point to the page called Blog, instead it points to the loop of posts.
This means that ACF will load the data (via get_field) from the wrong place (not page called Blog).
To get around this, you will need to specify the Blog page ID in the get_field function.
something like:
<?php
$post_id = false;
if( is_home() )
{
$post_id = 123; // specif ID of home page
}
$use_sidebar = get_field('use_sidebar', $post_id);
$choose_sidebar = get_field('choose_sidebar', $post_id);
dynamic_sidebar($choose_sidebar);
?>
Ok so there you are using is_home() to find the homepage, but is there a similar function to find the posts archive page?
Thx.
Edit: Oh wait, my bad. Confused it with is_front_page() 🙂
This worked great. I finally have a sidebar again after some 4 hours of ripping my hair (not really – i don’t have hair). So thanks!
While I’m at it though – is there a way of doing this more automatically? Can WP find the ID of the posts page instead of me setting it explicitly like this?
Hi @Patrik
That’s more of a question for google and the WP codex.
Cheers
E
I have been trying to solve this same issue today so thought I would post my code in case other were having a similar issue
<?php
$slug = get_page_by_path( 'blog' );
if (is_single()) { ?>
<h1><?php echo the_excerpt(); ?></h1>
<?php } elseif (is_home()) { ?>
<h1><?php the_field('page_heading', $slug->ID); ?></h1>
<?php } else { ?>
<h1><?php the_field('page_heading'); ?></h1>
<?php } ?>
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OH my god you saved me a huge headache! It took me forever to find any documentation on this problem. Thank you!!!
