Title: Activate sidebar?
Last modified: May 28, 2020

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# Activate sidebar?

 *  Resolved [Deklipz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deklipz/)
 * (@deklipz)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-sidebar/)
 * How do I make the sidebar active or create a sidebar for Chaplin? The only widget
   areas I can see are footers and I don’t know enough to add one myself.

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 *  Theme Author [Anders Norén](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anlino/)
 * (@anlino)
 * [5 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-sidebar/#post-12942375)
 * Hi [@deklipz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deklipz/),
 * Chaplin doesn’t have sidebar support, and adding a sidebar in a child theme would
   require big updates to both PHP, markup and CSS, so it would be a big operation.
 * I have given some thought to how sidebar support could be added to Chaplin, and
   it’s something I might take a look at at some point, but I can’t promise that
   it will happen (or if it does, when). If including a sidebar with widgets is 
   a must, I would recommend you to go with a different theme for now.
 * (Answer semi-copy-pasted from [this thread](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/row-columns-sidebar/),
   which was created after yours.)
 * — Anders
 *  [droyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droyed/)
 * (@droyed)
 * [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-sidebar/#post-13296046)
 * It would be great to have a Sidebar 🙂
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [droyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droyed/).

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 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last reply from: [droyed](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droyed/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-sidebar/#post-13296046)
 * Status: resolved