Conditional Statements

[BlancTeam]

Hi!

I would like to display different content in the sidebar of a 2 column page template.

I would like to create one template to use for a group of pages. Depending on the page name, I would like to display the pages specific content in the sidebar.

I figured I would need to use conditional statements but I don’t know how to go about writing this.

The different sidebar content would be placed in content holders.

Please help me in figuring this out.


Much appreciated.

Marian

[FriscoTX · Accepted solution]

Easy with liquid conditionals, but probably easier with just named pages and content holders. Here's one solution:

Create your sidebar contentholders with names like "Sidebar-About", "Sidebar-Home", etc.  The part after the "-" needs to be the page name where the content will appear.

In your template, insert this where the sidebar contents will go:

       {module_contentholder,name="Sidebar-{module_pagename}"}

[BlancTeam]

Thank you!

Yes, easy enough. I thought I tried this once before but was not successful. I can assume then, I was doing something wrong.

Thanks again FriscoTX. You saved me a lot of time.

[Liam Dilley]

Does your plan have access to web apps? Can be similar but more powerful using that.

The actual page is the web app item, you can build a menu of the web app items, you can have a sidebar of content, feature image and more through the web app.

[BlancTeam]

I would like to try this approach. I've been working with BC for over a year now and I would like to do so much more than the normal things.Yes, my plan has everything.

Learning BC the hard way I created many templates for pages that needed different types of content in the sidebars.

I would like to use only a few templates and advance more on using web apps as you suggested.

Thanks so much!!