Useful WordPress Tricks (for the Theme Designer)

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1. Dejan (3 comments.) says:

   6/13/2008 at 5:02 pm

   thanks for mentioning me!
2. ChaosKaizer (62 comments.) says:

   6/14/2008 at 12:51 am

   just wanna touch the include specific files tips for sidebar
   if you have additional sidebar like for single or archive you can do it like the following (WP2.5.x)

   
get_sidebar($name); // arg $name is sidebar-"name".php

   the function will look for sidebar-single.php (inside theme dir) and load it if exists otherwise it will load the default sidebar.php.

   you can include section base sidebar base on wordpress hierarchical order. below is just a simple example (need to tweak it base on which section came first thought)
   
if (is_single()){
get_sidebar('single'); // include /theme/sidebar-single.php
} elseif (is_archive()){
get_sidebar('archive'); // include /theme/sidebar-archive.php
} else {
get_sidebar();
}

3. Dejan Cancarevic (3 comments.) says:

   6/14/2008 at 7:57 am

   thanks for the tip ChaosKaizer
4. Roni (9 comments.) says:

   6/19/2008 at 2:17 am

   Pretty simple but got the point. Thx