Cant belive I wrote sibear instead of sidebar in the title…no one is going to read this. Can someone edit it?
Okay 🙂
You are using the default layout ? Then what you are seeing is normal for that theme. There is a variant with a permanent sidebar .. and I’m stuck as to who designed it. I’ll go look.
I figured it was suppose to be this way. I am wondering if anyone knows a practical reason for why they did it. I want to add the sidebar on that page, but if there is a reason I have overlooked, then I would consider not doing it.
Go for it, I did -as well as many others. There is no accounting for personal taste, some like vanilla, others neopolitan.
I like edys fudge tracks. What does that mean?
No, seriously though, is this an esay fix? I dont want to have to install a whole new theme, as my layout has already become pretty custom.
If I could just get a heads up to the pages I have to add sidebar to, and make widecolumn narrow column that would be nice. This is all I need to do…correct?
Sound like you got it, just add:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
above:
<?php get_footer(); ?>
in single.php and change the class to narrowcolumn. easy.
Can we just save the index.php as single.php? That way the single page should act like this index page correct? Is that not what we are looking for?
In that case you could just delete single.php, then it defaults to index.php.
In the long run I suspect you will want to have a single.php as you can get rid of ifelse (nothing personal 😉 statements in the index file just to make the single post display differently from the main page. It will make future changes just that much easier for us php hackers (as opposed to programmers).
The only problem with directly deleting single.php is that comments do not show on individual pages.
