[lankyman26]

Hi. I’m just creating my site offline, but when I click the ‘no sidebar’ option on the homepage settings in Theme Options>Layout Options it puts a tick in there but nothing changes. The default no sidebar option works fine, but not the homepage one. Any idea why this might be? Thanks

[Skandha]

@lankyman26: Hello there,
Please post in your site URL so that I can look into the issue.

Kind Regards,
Skandha

[lankyman26]

Hi. I’m building it off line, but if you put this in your hosts file, you’ll see it…

217.194.210.98 free-city-guides.com
217.194.210.98 http://www.free-city-guides.com

Thanks!

[Skandha]

@lankyman26: Hello there,
I checked your site and you don’t seem to be using WordPress and our theme. Please post your issue in the respective theme support forum.

Kind Regards,
Skandha

[lankyman26]

Hi. The live site is using an old theme (atahualpa), but I am building a new site offline with your theme (Christmas Bell) at the server details I left. If you put those details in your host file in windows you should see it. I can’t think of another way to let you see take a look. Basically, the sidebar won’t switch off on the homepage even though the option is checked. It only works if I switch off the sidebar on the whole theme. Thanks!

[Skandha]

@lankyman26: All the Layout Options seems to be working fine at my end.
Homepage/Archive Layout is for archive pages and for homepage with you Latest Posts under Homepage Settings.
Can you recheck if the Layout Options are working?

Kind Regards,
Skandha

[lankyman26]

Hi. I have my homepage set to a static page rather than latest posts (my site doesn’t really use posts). So does that mean there isn’t a way to remove the sidebar with a static page? Thanks again…

[Skandha]

@lankyman26: If you have a static page rather latest post and to remove sidebar on that page you can
Go to => Appearance = Customize => Theme Options => Layout Options => Default Layout Check No Sidebar Option and Publish.

Let me know if this is what you want!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

[lankyman26]

Hi. What I’m looking for is a way to remove the sidebar on the homepage but keep it on all the other pages. I thought the checkbox did that, but as you say, it only works with ‘latest posts’, not a static page. Is there a way to remove the sidebar only on the homepage?

[Skandha]

@lankyman26: Hello there,
For that you will need to create a child theme and do a little bit of customization. Let me know if you are familiar with child theme customization so that I can guide otherwise I suggest you to hire a customizer.

Kind Regards,
Skandha

[lankyman26]

Hi. I’m pretty sure the ‘no sidebar’ option on the homepage used to work with a static/archive page in a previous release of Christmas Ball as that’s originally why I installed the theme. Anyway I’m not familiar with child themes I’m afraid, but I installed a plugin which has replaced the sidebar on the homepage with a blank space. The page is no longer central as a result however. Can you help with what kind of custom CSS I would need to make the homepage central again? Thanks!

[Skandha]

@lankyman26: I don’t think there was an option to remove sidebar only on Static Homepage. I am not able to access your site right now. You could do this using a Child Theme. That is what I would recommend. You can Generate Child Theme plugin to create a child theme. Activate and Install the theme. Then Go to => Dashboard => Generate Child Theme => => Select Parent Theme as Christmas Bell, fill the remaining fields and click Generate. This will create and activate the child theme. Now Go to => Child Theme Folder => functions.php and add the following Code.

remove_filter( 'body_class', 'christmasbell_body_classes' );

function christmasbell_child_body_classes( $classes ) {
	// Adds a class of custom-background-image to sites with a custom background image.
	if ( get_background_image() ) {
		$classes[] = 'custom-background-image';
	}

	// Adds a class of group-blog to blogs with more than 1 published author.
	if ( is_multi_author() ) {
		$classes[] = 'group-blog';
	}

	// Adds a class of hfeed to non-singular pages.
	if ( ! is_singular() ) {
		$classes[] = 'hfeed';
	}

	// Always add a front-page class to the front page.
	if ( is_front_page() && ! is_home() ) {
		$classes[] = 'page-template-front-page';
	}

	// Adds a class of (full-width|box) to blogs.
	if ( 'boxed' === get_theme_mod( 'christmasbell_layout_type' ) ) {
		$classes[] = 'boxed-layout';
	} else {
		$classes[] = 'fluid-layout';
	}

	// Adds a class of no-sidebar to sites without active sidebar.
	if ( ! is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ) ) {
		$classes[] = 'no-sidebar';
	}

	// Adds a class with respect to layout selected.
	$layout  = christmasbell_get_theme_layout();
	$sidebar = christmasbell_get_sidebar_id();

	if ( 'no-sidebar' === $layout || is_front_page() ) {
		$classes[] = 'no-sidebar content-width-layout';
	} elseif ( 'right-sidebar' === $layout ) {
		if ( '' !== $sidebar ) {
			$classes[] = 'two-columns-layout content-left';
		}
	}

	$classes[] = get_theme_mod( 'christmasbell_content_layout', 'excerpt-image-top' );

	$classes[] = 'primary-menu-left';

	$footer_left_content = get_theme_mod( 'christmasbell_footer_content_left' );
	$footer_right_content = get_theme_mod( 'christmasbell_footer_content_right' );

	if ( !( '' == $footer_left_content && '' == $footer_right_content ) ) {
		$classes[] = 'site-generator-two';
	}

	return $classes;
}
add_filter( 'body_class', 'christmasbell_child_body_classes' );

This should remove the sidebar in static homepage.
Let me know if this works out!
Kind Regards,
Skandha

[lankyman26]

That’s worked great. Thank you!

[Skandha]

@lankyman26: Glad I could help you out. Have a good day! 🙂

Kind Regards,
Skandha

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