Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have two views: view1 contains the 'archive' of CPT-blogs; view2 contains the single CPT post. (I don't want to work with the standard 'Template' for the single post because I need to put it in a WordPress page in order to be able to customize my sidebars.
Is there any documentation that you are following?
I serached in documentation and in the forum, but can't find anything.
Is there a similar example that we can see?
The page in which view 1 is hidden link
The page I'm trying to link to is hidden link
Before trying an unorthodox way of displaying archives and single posts, let me cover the alternatives:
1. using a recommended theme. I don't see any debug info for your site so I can't see which theme you are using. The themes on our recommended theme page support theme options in templates, so if you create a template for single "project" posts, for example, and your theme has options for full-width, sidebar left, sidebar right etc., you can set those per template.
2. if you are not using such a theme then the recommended way would be to create a copy of single.php which you rename for your post type (e.g. single-project.php) and edit that template to, for example, remove where the sidebar is inserted if applicable. That way you are still using the standard WordPress Template Hierarchy, maintaining the expected URLs.
If neither of those are possible, then, yes, you can create a View to list posts and rather than linking to the single post you link to a static page that will be used to display the single posts and pass the ID of the target post as a URL parameter. You then add a View to the static page which "listens" for the URL parameter to know which post to display.
Hi Nigel, thank you for the reply.
Still one question.
I have as Theme OceanWP, which is recommended. But in the template it only gives the option to enable or disable the sidebar. So, I think, I will choose your number 2. solution.
Do you still recommend that solution with OceanWP?
Hi Nigel,
What I want is to be able to choose two sidebars in a custom post type template and that is not an option at this moment (like it is on a regular page).
Thanks so far, I'm going to try to make a new single.php page. The name you suggest: single-project.php; should that 'project' be the slug of the template?
Can I find help on this topic?
