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1. hmdnawazz
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I have installed the wordpress on my local. I have some pages which have a left side bar. So how will I create a new template with a header, footer, left sidebar and main content area.

   Any help please? I am new to wordpress and want an easy and step by step solution for this?

   Thanks in advance.

2. deepbevel
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   If you're using twentyeleven or twentyten theme you should have those sidebars available from your widget admin page.

   Just go to Appearnce/Widgets, then put your widgets in the sidebars you want to use.

3. hmdnawazz
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I dragged the page to the sidebar widget. Now did not know what has done.
   I want some pages with left sidebar and some pages with right sidebar.
   How will I do this?

4. deepbevel
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Could get complicated creating different sidebar layouts for each page. I'd look for a plugin or theme which allows that. If you're using twentyeleven I think it has different layouts to choose from in the admin settings.
   If you just want different widgets on each page, but the same sidebar layout try a plugin called Dynamic Widgets.

5. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 5 months ago #

   please post the name of your theme.

   I am new to wordpress and want an easy and step by step solution for this?
   

   there no step by step solution - this will depend on your theme and is more an issue of programming the html structure.

   if you not familiar with html and css:
   http://www.w3schools.com/html/
   http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

   html and css instructions are not the focus of this forum - in extreme you need to hire some to program that for you.

6. hmdnawazz
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   I am using twentyeleven theme and I want to display my own html on every page's sidebar.

7. alchymyth
   The Sweeper
   Posted 5 months ago #

   first step:
   create a child theme for Twenty Eleven

   (it is important not to edit the default theme (Twenty Elven in wp3.3) directly)

   (you can download a child theme from http://quirm.net/download/80/ )

8. deepbevel
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   If the sidebars don't need different locations on each page you may not have to do anything special, but child themes are always best regardless.

   If you use the text widget which comes with WP you can add your html in the widget and it will display in the sidebar. If you get a php widget it's essentially like a page template, you can show almost anything in it.

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