[wp-hackers] Pagination: How to display sidebar content on front page only?

[Peter Westwood]

On 12 Jan 2010, at 22:36, RePost wrote:
>
> Thanks, all. I used your suggestions, and this is what worked for me:
>
> <?php
> if ( is_front_page() && !is_paged() )
> include("sidebar-index.php");
> else
> include("sidebar.php");
> ?>
>

An improvement on this which makes it much more friendly if you  
include in a released theme (and enabled child theme overload of  
template files) is to use get_sidebar();

<?php
if ( is_front_page() && !is_paged() )
     get_sidebar('index');
else
     get_sidebar();
?>

This allows for named sidebars as shown about and will also search  
child theme first and fallback to default theme sidebar.php if no file  
is found to include.

Cheers

Peter
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