can't see right sidebar items

  • RossB

    (@rossb)


    13 years, 7 months ago

    Hi folks.

    I’ve been blogging on the WP platform for some years, but recently completed my first website using WP as a CMS. I’ve used a one-column page format for all pages apart from the blog, for which I’ve selected two-column. However, the blog page appears to be one-column – it doesn’t look any different from the rest of the site.

    No doubt I’m misunderstanding something basic. I want to have a blogroll, RSS and email subscription buttons etc visible in a right sidebar, which I thought would be automatic if I selected two-column for the blog page.

    What do I need to do to have the sidebar content visible only on the blog page, please?

    So you can see what I’m talking about, my website URL is:
    http://www.proofreadercentral.com

    Cheers
    Ross

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    you have the theme layout option ‘one-column, no sidebar’ selected which does not output a sidebar to the blog page (index.php);

    change to one of the ‘content on left’ or ‘ content on right’ layout options,
    and adapt the css to stretch your single posts and static pages back to full width.

    Thread Starter RossB

    (@rossb)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, alchymyth. I understand in principle, but not sure how to execute your recommendation to “adapt the css to stretch your single posts and static pages back to full width.”

    Would this be the css in the stylesheet? If so, may I ask for the code I should use, please?

    Cheers
    Ross

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    yes – the edits/additions need to be done in style.css of your child theme;
    as you already have adaptations in style.css of the child theme, to stretch the pages, this might no get too complicated with the help of a browser inspection tool such as Firebug, to help identifying which styles you need to edit.

    Thread Starter RossB

    (@rossb)

    13 years, 7 months ago

    OK, thanks alchymyth. It’s way past time I investigated Firebug to see if I can understand it enough to make appropriate CSS changes. I gave it a quick run a few days back without really making head or tail of it, but I’ll have another more thorough look and see if I can work out the mods needed.

    Cheers
    Ross

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