Title: Sidebar-page.php issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Sidebar-page.php issues

 *  [bopjo1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bopjo1/)
 * (@bopjo1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/)
 * Hello, I am trying to make different page templates based on sidebar-page.php.
   I made an exact copy of it, changed the template name at the top, and assigned
   it as the template to a page. When I view it in my browser the sidebar drops 
   down below the main content.
 * I tried the fix [here](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/new-sidebar-template-not-working-in-twenty-eleven),
   but I don’t know exactly where to add the code specified, so I just added it 
   to the very end of functions.php.
 * Now when I load the page, I get this error:
 * Fatal error: Cannot redeclare twentyeleven_excerpt_length() (previously declared
   in /home/bopjo/arrowriverbed.com/program/banjopicker/wp-content/themes/childtheme/
   functions.php:335) in /home/bopjo/arrowriverbed.com/program/banjopicker/wp-content/
   themes/twentyeleven/functions.php on line 337
 * Can anyone help me with this? It is so frustrating! Why is it so hard to create
   new page templates with a sidebar? Shouldn’t this be easier to do out of the 
   box, without the need for complex code to “fix” it? Sorry, I’m just really frustrated
   with it and have been struggling with it all day!

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 *  Thread Starter [bopjo1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bopjo1/)
 * (@bopjo1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/#post-3090859)
 * Well I got the error to go away, but still have the original problem of the sidebar
   dropping down below the main content
 * Here is the way it is supposed to look. This page uses sidebar-page.php as the
   template:
 * [LINK](http://www.arrowriverbed.com/program/?page_id=12)
 * But here is how it ends up when I create a new template using sidebar-page.php.
   The sidebar drops below the main content:
 * [LINK](http://www.arrowriverbed.com/program/?page_id=14)
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/#post-3090861)
 * Your primary content has a width of 100%, therefore it spans the entire website
   and doesn’t make room for the secondary content (sidebar).
 *  Thread Starter [bopjo1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bopjo1/)
 * (@bopjo1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/#post-3090862)
 * Yes, but WordPress is supposed to adjust that when using the sidebar-page.php
   template. I made an exact copy of that file, changed the template name at the
   top, and saved it as a different file name. When I assign it as a template to
   a page, I don’t get the same layout as the sidebar.php template.
 *  Thread Starter [bopjo1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bopjo1/)
 * (@bopjo1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/#post-3090869)
 * Nevermind, I finally got it, but I would love to know why this is so hard to 
   do? Surely people have the need for multiple static pages with different sidebars?
   Seems this should be much more convenient to achieve!
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/#post-3090872)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Using_functions.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Using_functions.php)
 * don’t copy functions.php of the parent theme into the chilc theme;
 * as for the sidebar page template, you need to add a filter function for the body_class
   into functions.php of the child theme, to remove the .singular class when using
   the sidebar page template;
 * example:
 *     ```
       add_filter('body_class', 'adjust_body_class_for_template', 20, 2);
       function adjust_body_class_for_template($wp_classes, $extra_classes) { 
   
       if( is_page_template('yoursidebarpagetemplatefilename.php') ) :
       // Filter the body classes     
   
                 foreach($wp_classes as $key => $value) {
                 if ($value == 'singular') unset($wp_classes[$key]);
                 }
   
       endif;
       // Add the extra classes back untouched
       return array_merge($wp_classes, (array) $extra_classes );
       }
       ```
   
 * EDIT PS:
    well done.
 * > I would love to know why this is so hard to do?
 * it just is – ‘hard’ or ‘not hard’ depends on personal experience with WordPress;
   Twenty Eleven is just a bit tricky in some aspects.
 *  Thread Starter [bopjo1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bopjo1/)
 * (@bopjo1)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/#post-3090899)
 * Thanks. Yes, seems quite a bit more complex than twenty ten..

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 * 6 replies
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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-pagephp-issues/#post-3090899)
 * Status: not resolved

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