Static pages and sidebars

[Davy]

Hi!

I was wondering whether there's a way to include a sidebar in a static page. Or more in common: can one use that kind of Smarty-tags in those pages? If that isn't possible, is there a way to assign a template to a static page? I mean like the way you assign a template to a specific category.

To explain things a bit: I've two parts of my website that run on one Serendipity-installation, so I do sometimes need to tweak the templates a bit and I'd like to do that with the static pages as well.

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Usually the sidebars are already displayed in static pages?!?

You can use the custom plugin_staticpage.tpl template files to embed sidebars though, using the smarty functions documented here: http://www.s9y.org/78.html

HTH,
Garvin

[Davy]

Yes, they're included, but those are not the ones that I need, since they're the sidebars for the main site instead of those for the subpage. I'll look at the .tpl-file though.

[stm999999999]

You want to have the sidebar plugins every time on the same place - but on static pages you want to have other plugins as on blog-pages, right?

So, my suggestion:

on new s9y-versions you can config the count and name of sidebars. to do so, edit the config.php of your template:

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$template_config = array( 
    array( 
       'var'     => 'sidebars', 
       'title'   => 'Sidebars', 
       'type'    => 'string', 
       'description'   => 'sidebars', 
       'default' => 'blog-left,hide,blog-right,static-left,static-right' 
     ) 
);

for example.

now you can move the wanted plugins in the right sidebar.

in your index.tpl you have something like

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{serendipity_printSidebar side="right"} 

but we have to know (Garvin!?) if there is a way to look for "is this a static-page?" and then

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{if $is_staticpage} 
{serendipity_printSidebar side="static-right"} 
{else} 
{serendipity_printSidebar side="blog-right"} 
{/if} 

But be aware: perhaps some sidebar-plugins are of the only-once-type. These cannot occurs on both sidebar-types.

[Davy]

I use this method for my different categories, but I'm not sure how to tell S9Y to place a sidebar only on one sidebar.