Force Sidebar on Full Width page

Question

Any WP theme editor php gurus out there? So I'm using a theme that allows me to force all pages to full width. I have over 10,000 pages. It also forces my posts to full width too. I'm pretty sure I can edit single.php and force the right sidebar to show up but i'm having difficulty doing so. Any help is greatly appreciated. Here's the contents of my single.php file.

The end result is to have only my posts have right sidebar and not my pages that are already full width.

Thanks in advance!

<?php
/**
 * The Template for displaying all single posts.
 *
 * @package zerif
 */

    get_header();

    $sidebar_layout = apply_filters( 'zerif_sidebar_layout', get_theme_mod( 'zerif_blog_sidebar_layout', 'sidebar-right' ) );
    $wrapper_class  = 'content-left-wrap col-md-9';

if ( 'full-width' === $sidebar_layout ) {
    $wrapper_class = 'content-left-wrap col-md-12';
}
?>
    <div class="clear"></div>
</header> <!-- / END HOME SECTION  -->
<?php
zerif_after_header_trigger();

if ( apply_filters( 'zerif_display_area_filter', true, 'single' ) ) {
    $zerif_change_to_full_width = get_theme_mod( 'zerif_change_to_full_width' );
    ?>
    <div id="content" class="site-content">
        <div class="container">
            <?php
            zerif_before_single_post_trigger();

            if ( $sidebar_layout === 'sidebar-right' && empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) || is_singular('post')) {
    zerif_sidebar_trigger();
}
            if(is_singular('post')){
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-9">';
}elseif ( ! empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) || 'full-width' === $wrapper_class ) {
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-12">';
} else {
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-9">';
}

            ?>
            <?php zerif_top_single_post_trigger(); ?>
            <div id="primary" class="content-area">
                <main itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPageElement" itemprop="mainContentOfPage" id="main" class="site-main">
                    <?php
                    while ( have_posts() ) {
                        the_post();
                        get_template_part( 'content', 'single' );
                        zerif_post_nav();
                        /* If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template */
                        if ( comments_open() || '0' != get_comments_number() ) {
                            comments_template( '' );
                        }
                    }
                    ?>
                </main><!-- #main -->
            </div><!-- #primary -->
            <?php zerif_bottom_single_post_trigger(); ?>
        </div><!-- .content-left-wrap -->
        <?php
        zerif_after_single_post_trigger();

        if ( $sidebar_layout === 'sidebar-right' && empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) ) {
            zerif_sidebar_trigger();
        }
        ?>
    </div><!-- .container -->
    </div>
    <?php
}
get_footer(); ?>

Answer 1

I'm not certain this would work without seeing the theme but you could try something like this...

Change...

if ( $sidebar_layout === 'sidebar-left' && empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) ) {
    zerif_sidebar_trigger();
}

To this...

if ( $sidebar_layout === 'sidebar-left' && empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) || is_singular('post')) {
    zerif_sidebar_trigger();
}

This, in theory, would force the left sidebar on posts because I added || is_singular('post'), which simply means OR is a post.

You could do the same thing for where its checking for the right sidebar.

if ( $sidebar_layout === 'sidebar-right' && empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) || is_singular('post')) {
     zerif_sidebar_trigger();
}

Since we changed our conditions around we also need to add in some logic to handle the class that is being used.

Change...

if ( ! empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) || 'full-width' === $wrapper_class ) {
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-12">';
} else {
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-9">';
}

To...

if(is_singular('post')){
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-9">';
}elseif ( ! empty( $zerif_change_to_full_width ) || 'full-width' === $wrapper_class ) {
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-12">';
} else {
    echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-9">';
}

Update: Here is what your full code would look like with the right sidebar. Noticed I moved || is_singular('post') down to the last if statement.

<?php

/**
 * The Template for displaying all single posts.
 *
 * @package zerif
 */

get_header();

$sidebar_layout = apply_filters('zerif_sidebar_layout', get_theme_mod('zerif_blog_sidebar_layout', 'sidebar-right'));
$wrapper_class  = 'content-left-wrap col-md-9';

if ('full-width' === $sidebar_layout) {
    $wrapper_class = 'content-left-wrap col-md-12';
}

?>
<div class="clear"></div>

</header> <!-- / END HOME SECTION  -->

<?php

zerif_after_header_trigger();

if (apply_filters('zerif_display_area_filter', true, 'single')) {
    $zerif_change_to_full_width = get_theme_mod('zerif_change_to_full_width');
?>

<div id="content" class="site-content">
        <div class="container">
            <?php
    zerif_before_single_post_trigger();

    if ($sidebar_layout === 'sidebar-right' && empty($zerif_change_to_full_width)) {
        zerif_sidebar_trigger();
    }
    if (is_singular('post')) {
        echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-9">';
    } elseif (!empty($zerif_change_to_full_width) || 'full-width' === $wrapper_class) {
        echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-12">';
    } else {
        echo '<div class="content-left-wrap col-md-9">';
    }

    ?>
    <?php
        zerif_top_single_post_trigger();
    ?>
        <div id="primary" class="content-area">
                <main itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPageElement" itemprop="mainContentOfPage" id="main" class="site-main">
    <?php
        while (have_posts()) {
            the_post();
            get_template_part('content', 'single');
            zerif_post_nav();
            /* If comments are open or we have at least one comment, load up the comment template */
            if (comments_open() || '0' != get_comments_number()) {
                comments_template('');
            }
        }
    ?>
            </main><!-- #main -->
            </div><!-- #primary -->
    <?php
        zerif_bottom_single_post_trigger();
    ?>
    </div><!-- .content-left-wrap -->
    <?php
        zerif_after_single_post_trigger();

        if ($sidebar_layout === 'sidebar-right' && empty($zerif_change_to_full_width) || is_singular('post')) {
            zerif_sidebar_trigger();
        }
    ?>
</div><!-- .container -->
    </div>
    <?php
}
get_footer();
?>