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By tsservo on
Not really sure where I should be posting this question, and I haven't really been able to find an answer searching either...
I've developed a need to create a page for my site which doesn't have any left or right sidebars - I need the whole width. As I'm likely to need to create several pages like this in the future I've been looking at creating a page template to reuse.
However, I'm likely misunderstanding page templates but it doesn't seem to be something which I can use in this way. It seems to be something which overrides something outputted, not really an "alternate version" of. I could create a page that overrides that single node (node-101.tpl.php) but I don't want to create one of those for each page I create in the future.
I also can't figure out what I should be calling the template file either, and I think it's my clean-URL's which are giving me trouble.
Is page templates what I want to use for something like this, or is there an easier way? Can I set a page variable to eliminate the sidebars or something?
Thanks.
Tim
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You can control block
You can control block visibility and depending on the theme, if no blocks are visible then no sidebars. There is also a couple of modules that work at the region level, Region Visibility (tried this one, works ok) and Region Manager (sounds interesting)