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Hi mmarhala,

Can you not use the default template?

full width templates in themes are actually designed to not display a sidebar, hence why they are called full-width, this is to display the page content area as full width without any sidebars.

when you create your about page, can you not select the type of template to use which has a sidebar?

http://vaughanmontgomery.co.uk/screens/templates.png

In case you want to add a sidebar to it though, you can use the code

<?php get_sidebar() ?>

see http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_sidebar

In the template where you want the sidebar to appear. however the CSS would most likely need adjusting for that template too for both the sidebar & the page content area as it wasn’t designed to have a sidebar on that template.

Hi,

Can you check for your server error logs?

An internal server error doesn’t give us much to go by, but if you can find an error_log file maybe in your site root (where wp-config.php resides) or in your /wp-admin folder, there may be something listen that can help us determine the cause.

812mb is a lot if you actually mean php memory_limit and not actual server memory.

How many plugins do you have installed, and is this a single wp install or a multisite install?

Thanks

Hi,

Usually that happens when wp-config.php is not present. You say this has happened a few times?

Is there anything in common with all the sites this has happened on? Are they on the same server? Do they have the same theme/plugins installed?

What happens to the wp-config.php file? does it seem to get deleted?

You could try changing the permission of wp-config.php to make it read only?

Have you checked your server access logs from your cpanel? that might show something up somewhere, but not guaranteed.

something else must also be incorrect then too.

Can you post a copy of your htaccess and wp-config.php (remove any DB details from it before you paste it though)

hi, how are you trying to display the featured image?

You can use

if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
	the_post_thumbnail();
}
the_content();

This should help. http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Thumbnails

cheers

Hi,

check in the theme functions.php

Look for the function that registers the widget area
It’ll look something similar to (but not exactly the same)

function my_widgets_init() {

	register_sidebar( array(
		'name' => 'Home right sidebar',
		'id' => 'home_right_1',
		'before_widget' => '<div>',
		'after_widget' => '</div>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="rounded">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	) );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'my_widgets_init' );

Then in the theme you would add the get_sidebar() http://codex.wordpress.org/get_sidebar

The above would create a widget area, but if you are actually wanting a widget itself, you would need to find the widget code in the theme itself, it could be in the functions.php or a seperate file.

There’ll usually be around 3 functions, one to provide the admin widget options/form, 1 to register it & another to display/process the widget on the front-end.

Just search the files in the theme looking for the word ‘widget’ that should give you something to go on. This page might help you, understanding how they’re created should then help you find the code in the themes. http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_register_sidebar_widget

Cheers

Hi @mosesog,

This could just be a CSS issue, depending on the theme.

Could you post a URL to the page, it will be much easier if we could see it.

cheers

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