WP – Add class to body if sidebar is active

[taxicss]

Hi, just a quick question. How do I dynamically add a class of “has_sidebar” to the body if the page has an active sidebar?

Thanks.

[chrisburton]

Have you looked at the Codex?

[taxicss]

@chrisburton

I did but what I want is just a class so I can style the pages with sidebars and pages without.

I’ll keep digging. Thanks.

EDIT:
Ok, found it.

[chrisburton]

I did but what I want is just a class so I can style the pages with sidebars and pages without.

Yeah. The WP Codex will help you with knowing what to use

I found this within seconds: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_sidebar

[taxicss]

Now I’m confused. All my pages now have active sidebar since I’m using the page.php. How can I activate sidebar to some specific page only?

[chrisburton]

I’m not understanding, can you show me code? Elaborate more rather than a sentence or two if you can.

Edit:

How can I activate sidebar to some specific page only?

Custom Post Types?

[taxicss]

Ok, here’s some of my code…

pastebin

I have 6 pages. They are just normal pages, no templates. Under page.php, I have “<?php get_sidebar(); ?>” which activates the sidebar to every page that is being created.
Now I only want 4 of my pages to have the sidebar?

[taxicss]

I’m thinking of the conditional tags to target the specific pages like

if ( is_page( '' ) ) {
...
}
<code></code>

but I don’t know what code to put inside to add the sidebar…

[chrisburton]

I have 6 pages. They are just normal pages, no templates. Under page.php, I have “<?php get_sidebar(); ?>” which activates the sidebar to every page that is being created. Now I only want 4 of my pages to have the sidebar?

If I were using WordPress, I would honestly just use a CPT with the same setup as page.php except have the sidebar in the CPT template. That would solve your issue.

[chrisburton]

but I don’t know what code to put inside to add the sidebar…

is_page(array('about', 'work', 'contact')) {
    sidebar stuff here
}

[taxicss]

Ah you mean putting this stuff

// If Dynamic Sidebar Exists
if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
// Define Sidebar Widget Area 1
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => __('Widget Area 1', 'spiceksa'),
'description' => __('Description for this widget-area...', 'spiceksa'),
'id' => 'widget-area-1',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="%2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>'
));
// Define Sidebar Widget Area 2
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => __('Widget Area 2', 'spiceksa'),
'description' => __('Description for this widget-area...', 'spiceksa'),
'id' => 'widget-area-2',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="%2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h3>',
'after_title' => '</h3>'
));
}
<code></code>

inside that?

[chrisburton]

Edit:

Oh, I didn’t understand what you were implying. Yes, put it inside of that.

[Alen]

Put this in your functions.php file. Note: Not tested.

/**
 * ----------------------------------------
 *  Adds sidebar name, as class, on the body
 * ----------------------------------------
 */
add_filter('body_class', 'init_add_sidebar_classes_to_body');
function init_add_sidebar_classes_to_body($classes = '')
{
    if ( is_active_sidebar( 'some-sidebar' ) ) {
        $classes[] = 'some-sidebar';
    }
    return $classes;
}

[chrisburton]

@AlenAbdula Thanks for chiming in! Seemed like the OP wanted two things: add class to the body, only have the sidebar appear on specific pages.

[taxicss]

@Alen Thanks, yes I was able to add a class to the body but my problem now is activating/adding the sidebar to specific pages.

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