Title: Sidebar Confusion
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebar Confusion

 *  [boogiewoogie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boogiewoogie/)
 * (@boogiewoogie)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/)
 * I added a “home” link to my sidebar and it shows up properly on the blog’s main
   page and archives and categories pages.
 * I also added a graphic/text ad and a “add to Yahoo” button. But these only show
   up on the main page and not any of the subpages. They are all on the sidebar 
   template.
 * Why is one change showing up everywhere (as intended) and the others only on 
   main page? And, of course, how can I fix this.

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 *  [Ming](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ming/)
 * (@ming)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204463)
 * WordPress has conditional statements like ‘is_home’ (are we viewing the home 
   page?) or is_single (are we viewing a single entry?). In most templates the sidebar
   is full of conditionals like this. I suspect you put your ‘home’ and ‘yahoo’ 
   links under different conditionals.
 *  Thread Starter [boogiewoogie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boogiewoogie/)
 * (@boogiewoogie)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204467)
 * I’m sorry, I should have included the link. I didn’t intentionally do anything
   like that. Here’s the link
    [http://www.fishing-trip-advisor.com/blog](http://www.fishing-trip-advisor.com/blog)
 *  [Ming](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ming/)
 * (@ming)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204471)
 * Thanks for the link. It looks like that’s all your problem is so it’s easy to
   fix. Here’s the code in the default template’s sidebar.php
    (I’ve shortened a
   few lines).
 * `
    <?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?> <?
   php get_links_list(); ?>
    - <h2>Meta</h2>
 *  -  <?php wp_register(); ?>
    - <?php wp_loginout(); ?>
    - ... validate link ...
    - ... xfn link ...
    - ... wordpress link ...
    - **... Yahoo link ... **
       <?php wp_meta(); ?>
 * <?php } ?>
 * You see how the very first line says `if ( is_home() || is_page() ) {` ?. So 
   that’s saying ‘if we’re viewing the home page or we’re viewing a ‘page’ (ie something
   you made under write->pages) then show this section. And the section goes from
   the ‘{‘ at the end of that line to the ‘}’ at the end. Since your Yahoo link 
   is in that section, it will only show on the home page or a ‘page’ you made. 
   It can be a little confusing but it also makes per page customization quite powerful.
 * Anyway, the short story? Just move your yahoo link after the last } and it will
   then show on any page.
 *  [Ming](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ming/)
 * (@ming)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204472)
 * The code got a little messed up there but it’s the last section in your sidebar.
   php file. Let me know if it’s still not clear.
 *  Thread Starter [boogiewoogie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boogiewoogie/)
 * (@boogiewoogie)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204478)
 * Thanks for a great explanation. I’ll keep playing with it… I’m not doing something
   right. When I move the link after the last } I get a “Parse error: parse error,
   unexpected ‘<‘ ” error code. And nothing is showing up in the sidebar.
 *  Thread Starter [boogiewoogie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/boogiewoogie/)
 * (@boogiewoogie)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204506)
 * Thanks Ming. I got it, finally. I actually had to put the info after the “>” 
   which followed the “}”.
 * I appreciate your help… don’t know how long it would have taken without it.
 * Dave
 *  [Ming](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ming/)
 * (@ming)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204603)
 * Glad you got it figured out, the page looks good.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Ming](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ming/)
 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-confusion/#post-204603)
 * Status: not resolved

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