[Theme: picochic] Sidebar missing from Picochic and other issues

I really like this theme but two things have put me off.

First, a page not scheduled to be published until later this year got published upon installation of Picochic. I’m still scratching my head on that one.

The big problem, however, is the fact that I cannot for the life of me figure out why the sidebar is not showing up. I’ve tried both sidebars – left (#1) and right (#2) – completely making one of them inactive with hope that the other would show. Nothing.

And yes, I checked to see the the call for the sidebar had been omitted. It hasn’t.

Since I need to have a side bar I’ve switched back to my old theme but I did want to bring this to someone’s attention.

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