Help needed adding a sidebar to the pages!

Rename that homepage-sidebar.php into sidebar-homepage.php and after use this code
<?php get_sidebar('homepage');?>

hope its may work

Hey Viky,

Thanks for your response.

Although I think you may have slightly misinterpreted what I’m trying to say.

I don’t know where I’m meant to insert that code!

insert a sidebar that sits on the right of my pages

the most likely template to insert the code is page.php, however the details depend on your currently used theme.

I’m using the TwentyEleven theme.

Just tried adding the code to the page.php but it put the sidebar below the content, rather than on the right side of the content.

before you make any customisations to the templates, strongly consider to create a child theme to work with – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes – it is not recommended to edit the default theme Twenty Eleven directly.
one of the reason being, that any customisations will get overwritten when you upgrade the theme.

a:
Twenty Eleven comes with a page template with sidebar ‘Sidebar Template’;

b:
any new page template with a sidebar needs to have some body_classes corrected so the sidebar displays in the right location; I have written about this in my site: https://www.transformationpowertools.com/wordpress/twenty-eleven-new-page-template-with-sidebar-correction

c:
a link to your site might help with troubleshooting

Hey Alchymyth,

Thanks for your response.

I have a Custom CSS plugin for the site which I presume acts as a child theme?

Here is a link to the site I’m working on;

https://www.tyisafbala.co.uk/wordpress

What do you advise me to do here then?