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Hi all, just looking for a bit of a nudge in the right direction.

I have a news section on my site, (entries in news channel).

I have a single entry view template. It is a main/left sidebar layout.

For some entries in this channel, I would like it to have a different layout (full width for example)

Whats the best way to go about this?

One thought is to put a custom field in the channel - just a drop/down maybe with yes or no values.  Then in your template code use it’s value in a conditional to return the sidebar HTML.

Granted it’s not two different templates but rather one template with different HTML but maybe might work?  It would mean the HTML would need to degrade gracefully but would keep your URLs consistent no matter the layout.

Ah great, that’s kind of what I was thinking.

Template will obviously need a bit more planning, but would be worth it to keep things simple.

Out of curiosity, do you think it would be OK to change the whole template section based on the conditional, or should I break it down further?

ie. I could have something like:

HEADER

IF"YES”

BODY TEMPLATE 1

IF “NO”

BODY TEMPLATE 2

FOOTER

That should work, right?

Yes.

Great, thanks for your help. Much appreciated.