Sidebar has vanished

Can you share the link to the website?

Sure. It’s TheOldBroadRuns.com.

Thanks.

Everything is good with sidebar on your site.
I think that you opened your site on narrow screen.
The activetab theme is responsive.
It means that on narrow screens content occupies 100% of the width and sidebar falls down below content.
It is very useful for mobile devices because content and readability is much more important than sidebar.

Write me back if you will have any additional questions.

I’m looking at it on a full-sized screen on my desktop, and it’s still showing as if it’s on a mobile device. I understand the purpose of responsive themes, and Activetab looks fine in that format on my tablet, but I really want the sidebar on my desktop, and it just isn’t showing up. :-/

What is the resolution of your screen?
And what browser are you using?

I’m at work at the moment, so I can’t give you stats for my home screen. On my work computer, the site has a sidebar and looks great, so I’m assuming it has something to do with my browser (Firefox both here and there, but I don’t know which version I have at home) or my monitor. My monitor at home is a bit smaller than the one here, but still big enough, I would think, not to trigger the mobile version. I guess Activetab defines “narrow” differently than I do.

I REALLY like this theme, so I’m ready to teach myself how to make a child theme to adjust at what point the mobile version is triggered. Could you let me know where in the CSS code I’d find that line so I can try it out? I’d hate to start searching all over again for the perfect theme when Activetab seems exactly what I want in every other way.

You are right, now activetab triggers responsive behavior too early.

To fix this you should replace string ‘col-lg-‘ with string ‘col-md-‘ inside of ‘*.php’ files to trigger responsiveness on medium screens or ‘col-sm-‘ on small screens.

Files to replace: footer.php, header.php, sidebar.php, template-part-wrap-before.php.

Strings to replace: col-lg-4 => col-md-4, col-lg-8 => col-md-8, col-lg-12 => col-md-12.

There is no need for you to create child theme because I will fix this in the next version of the activetab theme.

Thank you so much–I’ll try it.