[Theme: Simon] Sidebar not showing on blog

  • gurneyhm

    (@gurneyhm)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi all,

    I am building a site and trying to get a right sidebar showing on the home screen, which is a blog page. No can do.

    I have tried adding the get_sidebar() call to the page template, but no luck. I also created a new template with that call and still no luck. I even created a new sidebar, registered it, and still no luck.

    Here is my code:

    <?php

/*Template Name: Blog With Sidebar*/

get_header();

get_template_part('loop-post');

get_footer();

get_sidebar('sidebar');

?>

    A site with a sidebar that works (same theme):
    http://www.xoverland.com

    My Site:
    http://www.kidultimate.com

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Michael

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  • WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Looks like the problem is that your sidebar is outside the closing HTML tag:

    </body>
</html><div id="sidebar">
   <ul>
         </ul>
</div>

    Do you really want the sidebar below the footer?

    Thread Starter gurneyhm

    (@gurneyhm)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Hi there,

    Thank you for the response. No I want it on the right hand side. Thank you, this gives me something to go on. I’ll let you know if I fix it.

    I’m going to try to put it in like this above the other code and see what happens.

    Thread Starter gurneyhm

    (@gurneyhm)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    OK, some progress. I was able to get the sidebar to show up with the following code:

    <?php
/*Template Name: Blog With Sidebar*/
get_header();
get_template_part('loop-post');
?>

<div class="sidebar">

	<div class="sidebar-wrap"><?php get_template_part( 'sidebar-page' ); ?></div>

</div>

<p?php
get_footer();
get_sidebar('homepage');
?>

    However – it shows up at the bottom of the page instead of the right hand side. Can you help with this?

    Thank you!

    M

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    your latest code has an error here:

    <p?php
get_footer();
get_sidebar('homepage');
?>

    and do follow the advice by @wpyogi to move the sidebar call to above the footer call.

    also possibly review:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development

    it might be a good idea to contact the developer of your theme for support;
    as your theme in not from http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/, it is not suported by this forum, apart from general suggestions.

    Thread Starter gurneyhm

    (@gurneyhm)

    11 years, 1 month ago

    Oh thank you for this. I didn’t know this was only for certain themes.

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