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[Clifford P]

can I have a custom section include one or more other sections?

for example:

customsection1

navbar ( custommenu1 )

pullquote ( this is the best quote ever )

customsection2

navbar ( custommenu2 )

pullquote ( no, this is the best quote ever )

navbar ( custommenu3 )

etc., whether on the same page (i.e. adjacent drag-and-drop) or not

1) can this be done?
2) if yes, could you please provide a working example how to insert content into each section (like specifying I want a navbar section with 'custommenu1' as the menu for that navbar)?

Thank you very much.

[Clifford P]

Related but different idea:

Can I have 3 "control/condition" sections that are 1) if 2) else 3) endif and then have sections between all 3? Obviously, if I drag-and-drop fewer than all 3, the page should break.

Example of a drag-and-drop setup (indentation for illustration purposes only -- no indentation would be within the drag-and-drop, they'd just be in the following order):

section_if

section_banners

section_boxes

section_else

section_banners_clone

section_boxes_clone

section_masthead

section_endif


Thank you.

[Rob]

I'm unsure if you can do any of these things, as this isn't a developer forum. However, I suspect that to accomplish some conditional circumstance for your site, you're going to need a professional developer who's extremely familiar with both PageLines and WordPress (not to mention PHP). This would require coding modification of core files in your system (

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[Clifford P]

I agree it's a non-standard thing, but I think it's a neat idea and maybe someone like Simon could weigh in. Other than Simon, are there any other developers who reply to forum posts? Thank you.

[Rob]

It sounds like a very good idea.

Unfortunately, no. Simon pops in from time to time, but he's not a moderator by any measure. If he replies, it's purely by chance. Also, he's our principal developer and isn't available for customizations. This is one of the several reasons why I recommend using a Pro developer (along with preventing the crashing of your site).

[Clifford P]

As you can tell, I've been doing some trial and error. I am working on a local development so site crash isn't a huge concern. However, I would appreciate if any dev could chime in here, even if just on a theoretical level. Thank you.

[Jenny]

As far as I know, you cannot put a section inside a section. If you're talking about sidebars, maybe something like Widget Logic from the

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may help.