How do I get the sidebar to show on the front page?

I’m looking for a solution to this same issue. I will add that the sidebar template’s effect on the front page content, that is, pushing everything to the left, also affects the featured image for pages added to the front page via Theme Options. Only the first header image remains full width.

Also, it doesn’t seem to make a difference whether you choose the sidebar page or default template on the pages. They all get pushed left.

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Springtide.

Still trying to figure this out.

To make room for the sidebar, I used the first sidebar template from @alchymyth in an earlier ticket (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-do-i-get-the-side-bar-to-also-show-on-pages/). The shoves the header and content to the left but it also shortens the width of the featured image between pages to the width of the left column. That was acceptable for the purpose of this experiment. (The feature image might be able to be fixed with some CSS styling or a function to stretch it back out.–Later.)

To get the sidebar on the front-page, I tried to insert

	<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

into the bottom half of the /template-parts/page/content-front-page.php file hoping that would add the sidebar to the separate sections of the front-page.

			<div class="entry-content">
				<?php
					/* translators: %s: Name of current post */
					the_content( sprintf(
						__( 'Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "%s"</span>', 'twentyseventeen' ),
						get_the_title()
					) );
				?>
			</div><!-- .entry-content -->

		</div><!-- .wrap -->
	</div><!-- .panel-content -->

</article><!-- #post-## -->

It did but depending on before or after which div I inserted it, the sidebar appeared either above the content or below the page content. Never to that nice empty space next to the content.

Has anyone found a solution for this yet?

Thanks.

Good luck. I’ve moved on…not going to use this theme. I found one that does what we want. Although it still doesn’t facilitate a sidebar with widgets in the main section of the home page, it does support putting them in the “footer sidebars”, which is a satisfactory compromise as long as there’s not a lot of content to push it too far down the page. FYI: the theme we’ve decided to use is Screenr.