tluskie

Here’s how you can have a different sidebar show up on your inside pages or single posts. Quick instructions:

https://blogcraving.com/sidebars-pages-wordpress-blog/

It will have a lot to do with how your template is set up, but here it is in general. One way to do it is…

edit your sidebar.php to not function as a traditional sidebar.

Instead, set it up as a sidebar with two more sidebars inside it, like this.

<div class="styleforbox"><?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/yourbox.php'); ?></div>

<div class="styleforeleft">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-left.php'); ?>
</div>

<div class="styleforeright">
<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar-right.php'); ?>
</div>

Basically, you are:

1) Making a sidebar.php
2) Inside that sidebar you are stacking a box on top. Do that either hardcoded in or sourced (via php include).
3) Then source in two sidebars AFTER the box.
4) Make your CSS <div> control the style, look, and a alignment of each box/column.

I’m working on a free mini-course (by email) on converting non-Wordpress templates into functional WordPress templates. It should be out in a few days.

I’ll announce it on my site when it is ready.

The background of those form fields or that entire div will be in your style.css file (typically).

Look for things like:

#comments {background }

or

.comments {background }

That will control those colors.

You find the comments CSS, the background color may not be defined if it is inherited from a higher div. So you may have to add the background part.

You want them as an “endcap” like this site? https://amygrindhouse.com/

As in keeping 2 sidebars but have one box that goes across the top of both?

I’ve done it before too. Just create a subdomain of your main site. Just make sure to set the privacy to PRIVATE so you arent pinging the search engines with test posts.

For example, make https://dev.yourdomain.com

Then just use that area as your sandbox. You can then move files around pretty easily when you are ready to deploy.

I’m not familiar with that specific template, but sometimes some of the newer ones have specific options in your dashboard to control that little snippet. Have you looked there?

I dont think it is a Widget in the traditional sense because it is being called BEFORE the dynamic widgets functionality.

So it is either something in your options dashboard somewhere related specifically to this template -OR- it is something hardcoded (doubt it) on the sidebar.php file.

Look on the bottom of your index.php template for where it calls for the sidebars.

You will want to duplicate that on your single.php file. Your current single.php file probably only calls for ONE of them. You just need to add the call for the missing two.

Oh and I suppose I should note that these ad tags would be OUTSIDE the loop.