Title: Keep left menu when viewing single posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Keep left menu when viewing single posts

 *  [selder2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selder2/)
 * (@selder2)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-left-menu-when-viewing-single-posts/)
 * I’m modifying the default WordPress theme, but I would like to keep the menu 
   on the left when viewing single posts… How could I do that?

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-left-menu-when-viewing-single-posts/#post-257637)
 * 1. Choose a Theme that has a sidebar on the single post view.
 * 2. Edit the `single.php` to resembled the `index.php` in structure, so where 
   it says “widecolumn” or something similar in the CSS class for the content area,
   change it to “narrowcolumn” or whatever your Theme is using. Then add the call
   to the sidebar, as you see on the `index.php` template file.
 * For more information on the structure of typical WordPress Themes and editing
   Template files see:
 * [Site Architecture 1.5](http://codex.wordpress.org/Site_Architecture_1.5)
    [Stepping Into Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Stepping_Into_Templates)
   [Templates](http://codex.wordpress.org/Templates) [Theme Development](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development)
 *  Thread Starter [selder2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selder2/)
 * (@selder2)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-left-menu-when-viewing-single-posts/#post-257692)
 * Thanks a million, got it the way I like … [http://www.damn.be/weblog](http://www.damn.be/weblog)

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 * Last reply from: [selder2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selder2/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keep-left-menu-when-viewing-single-posts/#post-257692)
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