Title: Conditional Tags Feature Request
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Conditional Tags Feature Request

 *  Resolved [jkozuch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkozuch/)
 * (@jkozuch)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/)
 * I don’t know if this has been posted before, but it would be nice to have the
   conditional tags extended a bit.
 * For instance, I have a series of pages that use a parent page on my website.
 * I also conditional logic to create variable sidebar content, which has been an
   absolute godsend for me. It’s one of my favorite features of WordPress functionality.
 * However, it’s somewhat lacking, as I need to create a different if statement 
   for each page if I want to display content, even if the content for 2 or more
   pages will be the same. This is somewhat of a pain, and if I need to update the
   content for these 2 pages, I need to do it in 2 or more places.
 * Basically, it would be really nice if you could have:
 * `<code>is_page('2,3,5')</code`
 * It would be even better to have this idea extended to is_single, is_category,
   is_author, is_pages, and is_attachment.
 * I’m planning on standarding many of my client’s website on WordPress, so except
   many more of these suggestions as I go through the paces.
 * Thanks,
 * Justin

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 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/#post-496042)
 * I’m probably missing the obvious, but why not just do multiple Page Templates?
 *  Thread Starter [jkozuch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkozuch/)
 * (@jkozuch)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/#post-496046)
 * I don’t know much about that, but isn’t sorta the same thing? Pardon my ignorance
   LOL.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/#post-496047)
 * Well, if your goal is to have variable/differing content on assorted [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages)…
   instead of using conditional tags and a common Page template, just create multiple
   Page templates, each with the necessary/desired customizations.
 * See the [Pages](http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages) link for more, section 7 discusses
   templates.
 * Hope that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [jkozuch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkozuch/)
 * (@jkozuch)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/#post-496053)
 * So let’s say that I have six child pages for the portfolio category, I create
   a template called client.php and use that template for each of the pages under
   portfolio. Then, I use that instead of the if statement. That’s how I understood
   that link you sent.
 *  Thread Starter [jkozuch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jkozuch/)
 * (@jkozuch)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/#post-496084)
 * I figured it out.
 * What I did was create a template called client.php, and inserted this code:
 * `<?php
    /* Template Name: Client */ ?> <?php get_header(); ?> <div id="content"
   > <div id="contentLeft"> <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();?
   > <div class="post"> <h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><?php the_title();?></h2
   > <div class="entrytext"> <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of
   this page &raquo; '); ?> </div> </div> <?php endwhile; endif; ?> </div> <?php
   include ('sidebar-client.php'); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?>
 * Then I created a file called sidebar-client.php, and inserted this code:
 * `
    <div id="sidebar"> <div id="contentRight"> <!--first/center column--> <?php//
   portfolio page/sub-pages if (is_page()) { echo '<h4>Noteworthy Notes</h4> These
   examples are a small smattering of both my personal and professional work in 
   recent years. Feel free to read more <a href="/about/" title="About Me">about
   me</a> or <a href="/wp-content/docs/justinkozuchresume.pdf" onclick="javascript:
   urchinTracker(/downloads/resume/);" title="My CV">download my CV</a> for my career
   history. '; } // That's all, folks! ?> <!--first/center column--> </div> </div
   >
 * I edited all the pages for the portfolio items to use the template called client
   and was able to consolidate my custom sidebar into those pages, using 1 conditional,
   and not 6 like I was doing before. Easy peasy. Thanks Handy.
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/#post-496089)
 * Rock on – glad you got it all sorted out. 🙂
 * Mark this topic as [Resolved] at the top?
 * Happy blogging!
 *  [syncbox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/syncbox/)
 * (@syncbox)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-tags-feature-request/#post-496540)
 * but just so you know… and when you don’t want a custom page template, you can
   use conditional code like so:
 *     ```
       if (is_page(3) || is_page(4) || is_page(11)) {
   
       whatever
   
       }
       else ....
       ```
   
 * to add the same thing for multiple pages.
 * hth

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