In a website I'm building (using my own designed theme, for a business site that doesn't have a blog, IOW, using WP for it's CMS), I have 5 templates: the homepage, the 404 page, the default (page.php), a small one-column and a large one-column. I use the default template for 6 pages in the site. That template is 2-column with a wide main column and narrower right column. But each page will have different content in the right column - mostly text - so it's really not a "sidebar" situation. I want to use the plugin "Multiple Content Blocks".
I used it in the homepage template and it's easy and works beautifully, but all I had to do was place this code:
<?php the_block('blockname'); ?>
in the template in my "colR" div. In actual fact the code is:
<?php the_block('News'); ?>
as I named the block "News".
So far so good.
In the readme.txt it has the following FAQ: How do I filter the content?, and it says:
"Use the function get_the_block instead of the_block, like this:
<?php $content_to_edit = get_the_block('blockname'); ?> and you can now edit this variable with PHP."
I'm ASSUMING (perhaps incorrectly) that this means I can write a function or filter for the plugin -- what I want to be able to do is name a block for each of the six pages, and then in the page.php template, be able to specify "if this page, use this block" but I don't know how to write it.
So, for example, if one of the pages is called "customer", or ID 21, and I want to name the content block "contact", what exactly goes in the $content_to_edit part? I've tried a couple things but they haven't worked.
Also, would it need to go inside the loop? In my page.php I have the loop above the colR (for column right) div.
Help greatly appreciated!
