The theme you chose doesn’t include sidebars on every page. (I’ve done some work with that theme myself, and got frustrated trying to add it all back in.) It just takes some time, if you want to preserve some of the other formatting.
However, if you don’t care about losing some of the bits and pieces of extra stuff on the single pages and such, a really easy and quick solution is to remove the page/post/archive template files that don’t call the sidebar and just let index.php serve them all up.
Get familiar with the Template Hierarchy and then you can figure out which templates to nix.
As always, back everything up before you delete anything, so you’ve got it if you remove the wrong thing. 🙂
As far as making it look more like a plain old website, it definitely can be done. Just takes getting to know WP. I’d suggest starting with a read over some of the documentation in the Codex about blog design and layout. Once you get the hang of it, it’s really easy to customize your blog to look like whatever you want it to. 🙂
Are you using the default Kubrick theme?
Kaf has done a version of this that always includes the sideber! See http://wordpress.org/support/topic/25616
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AB
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No – I’m using a variant of “Fresh Bananas”
That’s what I had original thought, when I viewed your blog from your profile name.. you might want to check and see in your single.php and other files if you have the <get sidebar>
call tag, right above the <get footer> call tag.. Like such:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Should be near end of the file(s)..if it’s not like that..then add the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> tag above the other one like above.. =) If that’s not it, then I’m not sure, because I never used that theme before..
spencerp
Please read the one above first though.. =)
If that’s not the case then, check your sidebar.php file for this line and REMOVE IT:
<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>
A little farther down, find this and remove it also..
<?php } ?>
That should give you sidebars on all pages, I did that to my Kubrick already..and everything shows on all pages..that’s if the ABOVE post of mine, is done too.
spencerp
