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Thank you for leaving your solution! I haven’t tested that on my site yet, but it does look more sensible way to do it. I wasn’t really familiar with filters when I posted this problem ??

this might (unforunately) be caused by some of your customisations to style.css

That was the case, but I had to modify the css to make my widgets and content fit properly.

However, I FIXED THIS! Well, my way is not propably the best and cleanest but it worked for this site. I set the default template to “content on right” and set sidebar-template to all desired pages. Then I modified the sidebar-page.php and give “primary” div and new name. This way I could modify the css for sidebar-pages without messing up other pages. I also commented out the “twentyeleven_body_classes” part from functions.php, which made pages with default template expand to the full width. Now my site looks like it should!

the other way round (theme option ‘one-column’, but static pages with sidebar) would be much more complicated …

Sadly, this is what I need. I have static pages that mostly need visible widget area, but also few that need the whole site width for their content.

I disagree – look into page.php of Twenty Eleven – there is no sidebar call;

only the build-in page templates ‘Showcase’ and ‘Sidebar Template’ have a sidebar.

Actually you are right now when I checked my site again. If I have “Content on right” AND sidebar-template active the sidebar appears. Those pages that have just “default” chosen show no sidebar content, but they still bush content to the right and just show white space where the sidebar should be (damn!). If I choose “no-sidebar” as a default, sidebar won’t show anywhere, not even on the sidebar-template pages. I’m headdesking so much with this theme right now.

Alchymyth – I’m talking about regular static pages. You can set a default layout for Twenty Eleven under Appearance tab, but if I choose to have a sidebar it displays across the whole site. And if you don’t…well it seems there’s no easy way to get it visible anywhere.

Adam – I’ll propably have to try this. Luckily I have experience editing files and working with css. I’m just very miffed it has to be this complicated. Most other themes I’ve used had no problem using both two- and one-column pages.