Post page sidebar help?

  • I have a website set up using matheson theme and i wanted to make only ONE page like a blog, so i went into setting and selected that page as my “post page” but now it won’t let me only have the archives on the side of that page. I need help, i want my visitors to be able to go on and go to “blog” page and see my past posts but not on the other pages. It won’t let me customize just that page.

    https://www.youdreamdesign.com is my url and the page i want set up as a blog is titled “blog” and it has several posts but no archive.

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  • Hello Angel!

    If I understand your problem correctly, you want to display your blog posts with the sidebar on it. Is that correct?

    If so, you have to check your theme. Your theme must have an template that displays your sidebar. Check this link:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Page_Templates

    Let me know if it helps ??

    Thread Starter angelbuff_01

    (@angelbuff_01)

    Hello ellp!

    I tried to find the template drop down on the page but i’m using a child theme and there is no template drop down on the “edit page” screen, the only page attribute that I can see is named “parent”. I’m wondering if this is because of the child theme, and if so, how do i make a new template or get a template to the child theme?

    Thank you!

    Hello again Angel.

    I think you need to make a heavy modification on your theme to insert a sidebar as you wish. Here you have 2 options:

    1) the fast: choose another theme with a sidebar and replace it.
    2) learn to code a theme to modify the theme as you need.

    Think about it and post your findings here.

    Cheers.

    Thread Starter angelbuff_01

    (@angelbuff_01)

    Hello again as well.

    Choosing another theme did cross my mind but i only want the sidebar on that page. so my question is, if i choose another theme and then make a child theme won’t i be back to where i am now?

    Thread Starter angelbuff_01

    (@angelbuff_01)

    What i mean is will the new theme in child theme mode allow to me add a sidebar to just the post page?

    Angel,

    You can create a child theme, no problem on that. The problem is coding work you have to do. This theme use full screen images as i noticed. So you need to create a work around to resize your images to fit the sidebar. This kind modification is not easy task So, I recommend to you use another theme that has a sidebar on it. It will avoid a ton of problems coding.

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