The left sidebar is always displayed in this theme, as you can see here..
Now if you’d like the content to be displayed along the full width of the (rest of) the page, you can just add this to the childtheme style.css
.site-content .entry-header, .site-content .entry-content, .site-content .entry-summary, .site-content .entry-meta, .page-content {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 100%;
}
Thread Starter
gruts
(@gruts)
Thanks, but I wasn’t talking about the left sidebar; I was talking about the Content (i.e. right) sidebar.
What I’m trying to do is hide the right sidebar on my blog pages.
In selecting the full-width page template for my blog (/blog/) pages, I would expect the blog pages not to show the right sidebar (just like what happens for static pages using the full-width template). I tried to create a new page template specifically for my blog pages, but the theme seems to be ignoring whatever template I specify. Which sounds like a bug to me.
Thread Starter
gruts
(@gruts)
…Thinking about it, I suppose I could achieve what I want in a child theme by making the default template (index.php) full width, then introducing another template for pages requiring the (non-full-width) right-hand sidebar. It’s messy, but I’ll give it a shot and report back…
Thread Starter
gruts
(@gruts)
…Well, it sort of worked in that it got rid of the right sidebar, but I wouldn’t make the default page look like a normal full-width page because the <body> tag’s class isn’t set to ‘full-width’ by default.
I suppose I could then have made a whole pile of css changes involving the class body.blog, but that would be ridiculously messy.
Any other ideas?
WordPress will always look for either the index.php or home.php in order to display the blog feed irrespective of what page template is selected on the editor screen.
You could create a blog-template with a custom query but this option is riddled with a whole lot of issues – so not advised!
The alternative is to create an option setting via the customizer and then use it with a conditional call of is_home to output the blog loop minus the sidebar. This option will still leave your single posts showing the content sidebar unless you don’t want that then you’d run the above option + the conditional call on single post loop too.
Going to try this on my theme and if it works as I hope it would then will post some of the code used as a pointer.
Andrew Nevins
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@jasmine Malik, that’s now these forums work. If you need help you wait for it and don’t advertise on other people’s threads that you need help.
Thread Starter
gruts
(@gruts)
I suppose another alternative might be to create different sidebars for the blog and non-blog pages, to give users more control.
Is it what you expect?
.hentry {
margin: 0 auto 48px;
max-width: 100%;
}
It’s used in my page, the content will expand to more space if there are more to expand, http://pcode.petehouston.com/
Thread Starter
gruts
(@gruts)
If you mean does that get rid of the sidebar on my /blog/ page, no.
I’m coming round to the conclusion that keeping the right-hand sidebar on (non-full-width) pages, but removing it from my blog (posts) pages is something the Twenty Fourteen theme simply doesn’t want me to do. I think this is an unfortunate constraint, but I guess I’ll just have to live with it, or use another theme.
I’m coming round to the conclusion that keeping the right-hand sidebar on (non-full-width) pages
do you mean you want to remove the right sidebar to expand more space for post/page content?
Using for single posts the same layout as the one in the demonstration for full-width pages would be great.
gruts, is that what you are looking for?
Thread Starter
gruts
(@gruts)
@pete Houston, I’m not too bothered about making more space for content; I just want a bit less clutter on the screen when people are reading my posts. But I would like to be able to use the sidebar on the home page, search result pages, etc.
@carpewebem, yes, exactly. As things stand, I have, unfortunately, been forced to disable the right sidebar on my entire website, just so I can have nicer-looking blog posts.
Just submitted a plugin that solves this issue – fourteen-extended is awaiting review at the moment.
