jamieschmid

I get what you mean! Hopefully you don’t mind if I go into this a bit deeply, and I apologise if these are things you already know. I’d like to try and explain the reasoning behind sidebars, and where Gutenberg is probably headed, for anybody else who happens to search this topic. ??

Gutenberg, as it stands now, is a post/page-level editor. Typically a sidebar is a global SITEWIDE element, and Gutenberg development hasn’t gotten that far yet. But it does have blocks that you can SHARE between pages/posts. To directly and vaguely answer your question: It seems like the eventual goal is for some sort of global Sidebar solution with Gutenberg.

Gutenberg WILL support columns and grids, as part of the Layouts block, so this is something you definitely be able to do. If you update to the newest release of Gutenberg, you can test drive the Layouts beta block. Keep in mind this is still VERY beta, and when I tried it out found the process to be incredibly clunky. But that will all be worked out before official core release.

Having said that – the display of your Gutenberg content will still be VERY controlled by your theme. Some themes have built-in sidebar areas, that are meant to be used for widget-based sidebar content. Themes are going to have to undergo a big restructuring to convert that to Gutenberg.

Going back to the (traditional) sitewide global implementation of sidebars — it isn’t something you’d WANT to manage at the page level except in cases of overrides or custom elements. For efficiency sake, a central location to manage this sidebar is ideal (currently the Widgets section of the admin). Some themes allow you to do custom overrides on the page level to the global sidebar.

I imagine that is what’s going to eventually happen with Gutenberg, but the concentration right now is getting a basic working editor at the page level so it probably won’t be a feature in the first release in 5.0.

Here’s some developer discussion on the topic:
Sidebar in Gutenberg from March 2018

Discussion around columns in Gutenberg

Using Widgets in blocks

I hope this has helped answer your question and given you a little insight into what is coming ?? It won’t ALWAYS be this confusing, but there is still a lot of work yet to be done on the UX side of things before that happens.

I just wanted to clarify on this: do you want to do the Gutenberg float in order to mimic a sidebar? What is the use case you are trying to satisfy with this question?

I figured it out! The hosting account storage space was maxxing out and preventing any write privileges on folders. Updating in case anyone else happens to have this pretty specific problem ??

thank you @pcarvalho! This fixed the issue for me. Hopefully Mailchimp will release a new version with this fix in place soon!

Your forum isn’t allowing me to post, and multiple attempts to contact you via the contact form have gone unanswered. Please email me [email protected] as soon as possible. I’ve been trying for weeks to get someone from your support team to talk to me.
Thank you!
Jamie

You want to upload a featured image but don’t want it to show with the post… where would you like for it to appear?

Are you saying you don’t want it to appear just in your blogroll (on the homepage) or not appear at all anywhere within the post?

Hi, this is not resolved.

I posted to the forums on your website, and after no response a week later, I tried the direct contact form on your website (that you linked above) but neither has been responded to. My question however has had 14 views, which means other people probably would like to know the answer to this as well.

Can you please take a moment to respond?

It’s probably because one of those “/” is coming in dynamically from another place.

Can you make sure your WordPress installation is current? If it’s not, do the update, it could overwrite that file and fix itself. Otherwise I can send you a fresh comments.php file for you to replace, but I need to know what version of WordPress you are running.

hmm.. I’m not sure which images you are talking about? have you solved the problem?

Yes, it sounds like you don’t have permissions. Ask your client to give you full admin privileges.

In the event this is the login their previous developer gave them, it is possible only that previous dev has the full admin account access. In that case try to contact the original dev for it.

IT’S RAINING GOLD STARS! Much better than the typical Portland rain-rain, thank you ??

Is the demo you are looking at?
https://demo.richwp.com/minimum/

I don’t see any sidebar or social icons in the demo..

This means your website is trying to use more PHP memory than your Web Hosting configuration is allowing.

Depending on your host, there are a number of ways to solve this.

First is edit your wp-config.php file to add:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’96M’);

For more information on this, please go here:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

It depends; a membership plugin or a multisite install could both work but first, what is the purpose of your site?

Can you provide a link to your site?