blog page width

Hi @sheona!

Is it possible to have a side-bar widget area on the posts page? The page doesn’t have a ‘default template’ option, or any option. If it’s not possible, can I reduce its width another way?

The posts page on Sketch should show the sidebar automatically, provided it has widgets assigned to it.

Have you made any changes to the theme (or a child theme) that might have removed the sidebar from the posts page?

If toggle the Front Page setting under Settings > Reading, does that help?
– Change the front page to “Your latest posts”
– Save the changes
– Change the front page back to “A Static Page”
– Save the changes
– Test the posts page

Also, I changed the font-size overall with this bit of css … But this hasn’t affected anything in block-quotes on the blog

Blockquotes have their own size, defined separately.

blockquote {
    font-size: 1.25em;
}

Add that CSS and change the font size to increase/decrease the size of blockquote text.

Hi Chad

Just taken a while to tinker with things – the blockquote CSS is perfect thanks.

But I still can’t get the posts page to display widgets assigned to it. I tried what you suggested above but it didn’t work. Also if I deactivate the assignment of posts to that page (under the Settings > Reading options, then the side-bar area appears with widgets assigned, but obviously the blog entries are gone.

Are my posts doing something hidden to the page setting? They were imported with the WordPress Importer plugin from the same site but a previous theme.

Thanks,
Sheona

Also, I tried creating a new page and assigned the posts to that, but it didn’t work either…

It looks and sounds like something is hiding those widgets.

Some more ideas:

1. Perhaps this page was set to use the Full Width, No Sidebar template?
– change Settings > Reading > Front Page Displays to Your latest posts
– Edit the Blog page
– Look under Page Attributes, make sure the Default Template is selected under Page Attributes.
– Change the Front Page Displays setting back

2. If you’re using Jetpack, you may have Widget Visibility settings in play.
– In your Customizer, open the blog page.
– Open Widgets > Sidebar
– Are the widgets grayed out?
– Open a widget and click on Widget Visibility. Remove or update the visibility rules, if any have been set.

Some of the above options may not be there if you don’t have Jetpack open, or if that module isn’t turned on. When I tested your site on the Jetpack debugger, it didn’t find a connection, but it looks like the plugin might be active on your site?

3. A different plugin conflict.
– Try disabling all of your site’s plugins
– Load the blog page
– If the sidebar appears, turn plugins back on one by one until you’ve found the culprit

Let me know what you find with these tests ??