I’ve built several sites for small businesses. In almost all cases, they have a collection of static pages, and a blog on /blog/. I used to use the No Sidebars page template for all the pages.
Thesis 1.8 makes it even easier to disable sidebars on certain areas of your site. With just a few lines of code, you can disable them on any page, post, posts matching a certain criteria, or any archive page (including specific category archives and tag archives).
Some examples
Disable Sidebar everywhere
add_filter( 'thesis_show_sidebars', '__return_false' );
Disable on all ‘pages’ except the Blog page
add_filter( 'thesis_show_sidebars', 'thesify_no_sidebar_except_blog_page' );
function thesify_no_sidebar_except_blog_page() {
// if it is a page and not the blog page, disable ( return false ).
if( is_page() && !is_page('blog') )
return false;
// else enable
return true;
}
function thesify_no_sidebar_except_blog_page() {
// if it is a page and not the blog page, disable ( return false ).
if( is_page() && !is_page('blog') )
return false;
// else enable
return true;
}
Only show sidebars on single posts
add_filter( 'thesis_show_sidebars', 'thesify_sidebar_only_single_post' );
function thesify_sidebar_only_single_post() {
// if it is a single post, enable it ( return true ).
if( is_single() )
return true;
// else disable
return false;
}
function thesify_sidebar_only_single_post() {
// if it is a single post, enable it ( return true ).
if( is_single() )
return true;
// else disable
return false;
}