Adding Sidebar to Blog Page with Widgets

  • Hello. We have a site (currently local so no link available) that is set to display blog posts on a static page. The posts seem to be displaying fine. We would like to include a sidebar with widgets for Recent Posts, Archive and the Search Widget. I understand there is no sidebar functionality built in to this theme aside from the footer widget area, which won’t work for our purposes. Can we add the sidebar functionality back in or use blocks to somehow add these to the blog page? Thank you.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)

  • Using blocks would be your best bet. Otherwise, adding a real sidebar into the source code would require setting up a child theme, creating the HTML/etc then making sure that it reacts properly when the window is resized (desktop vs tablet/mobile).

    You could then use CSS to make a fake sidebar for the blocks in the content. At least that is how I would approach it.

    Thread Starter dwkelley

    (@dwkelley)

    Thank you for the response. We do already have a child theme but thought perhaps it would just be easier to use blocks. We did try adding elements to a block to function as a sidebar on the page we have chosen to display our blog posts but they don’t show for some reason.

    What elements did you try adding? Do you have a screenshot of the block config that you can upload to https://snipboard.io/ or similar and share here?

    Thread Starter dwkelley

    (@dwkelley)

    Here is a screengrab of the page in question on snipboard:

    https://snipboard.io/sNKULq.jpg

    This is the posts page that we designated. Not quite sure how to style it so that the posts show up on the left and the archive and other miscellaneous items show up in the right side block, much like this page.

Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total)
  • The topic ‘Adding Sidebar to Blog Page with Widgets’ is closed to new replies.