Sidebar on posts

Hello Trench,

Thanks so much for your interest and post. I was very excited to see your site using the Idealist, and full of content! Excellent.

The theme does not currently include the option to put a sidebar on single post pages, but it is a great idea. The reasoning was to keep it streamlined but I think this may be of use to many others as well. I’m putting it on the TODO list – although it may not be added right away. Stay tuned.

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

No problem and thank you. ??

Hello Trench,

I’ve just updated the Idealist and it now allows a sidebar on single page posts.

On the “Add New Post” or “Edit Post” page, select the “Two Panel Template” (under Post Attributes on lower right). It works the same way on Pages and Posts.

Let me know if you have any questions and thanks again for the feedback!

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

Thanks. I’ll check it out.

Hi Susan. I hope you don’t think I’m being ungrateful but I noticed a few things with the two panel template. The first is that it appears the two panel template removes the comments from a post. The second is, it looks like the header dates have been removed from the posts with the update.

Also I was wondering if there could be a way to switch on the two panel template site-wide instead of post by post.

Thanks for all the work you do.

Thank you. I look forward to the update. ??

Hi Trench,

The latest update (1.1.3) displays the sidebar, comments, and the post date on the single post page, using the two-panel template. The original (default) template has not been changed, and remains the same since the initial release. It never displayed the date in the header on the single post page. I think you make an excellent point though – that people wanting a sidebar will also, most likely, want the post date in the header. As is, the default post template is minimalist – designed for just a title and article (and comments, if allowed in settings).

Thanks again for your ideas and feedback!
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• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

Thanks. I just checked out the update and it’s perfect. Thank you so much again.