[Plugin: The Events Calendar] what about the sidebar

Howdy,

It supports sidebars depending on how your theme implements a sidebar. Traditionally, the call to the sidebar is done within the header or footer calls. If they are done elsewhere, perhaps our rejiggering of the template calls will resolve it in the 1.6 release. Otherwise, you might need to use the custom template approach and add in your sidebar call manually. For basics on custom template: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/the-events-calendar/other_notes/.

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The title is a bit misleading, but this thread describes adding the sidebar:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/371127

Shane,
I don’t know what templates you’re used to using, but the majority of templates I’ve been through put the sidebar call at the end of the various page/post themes to allow for widecolumn formats. Putting the call in the footer isn’t very practical unless adding an aditional widgitized area.

Anton,
Good fix, it’s exactly what I had to do to get this plugin useable.

Rubbish! Theme developers put sidebar calls in the templates where they are needed. I’ve added sidebar calls to header.php, footer.php, halfway down templates, at the top of templates – you name it. Placing a call at the bottom of a template file does not maximize the flexibility of that theme to handle wide columns formats That’s down to the overall markup structure, CSS and any additional theme options. If you’re using the same sidebar call on every page, it makes absolute sense to place it in the header or footer templates rather than in each individual template.

Maybe you’d like to elaborate why a call to a sidebar is better at the end of index.php instead of the very top of footer.php?

As previously stated, since many themese DO NOT use a sidebar on EVERY page, putting it at the end of the templates that DO use it makes a lot more sense than trying to force it onto pages that are running on widecolumn. Widecolumn usually is formatted specifically for less sidebars or none at all.

For reference, your “if” statement at the end of your first paragraph invalidated everything you said before. You basically admitted there’s an excellent reason not to put it in the footer.

For a moderator your comprehension level seems pretty low. This was all clearly stated in the original post.

Esmi: The default theme (which many people will probably use to develop their own) calls it out at the end of index.php. Clearly it can be called out from other places, but in this most visible example it’s at the end of index.php right before the footer call.

RB: not my fix; I just kept reading until I found the answer and then wrote it down.

The real problem I had with the default configuration of TEC was the lack of the sidebar in both List and Calendar views. With my relatively simple layout, the user was in a dead-end once TEC took over. I needed the sidebar to give him a way back to the rest of the WP content, so I added it back into List view.