Custom Sidebar on Blog Page non functional

please post all the code used to create your custom sidebar, and state in which files the codes were added.

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Hey there, sorry about that James! Will remember that for next time.

As far as the issue for Michael (thank you for responding!) we registered a sidebar in functions.php – code is below:

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'my_register_sidebars' );
function my_register_sidebars() {
    /* Register the 'blog' sidebar. */
    register_sidebar(
        array(
            'id'            => 'blog',
            'name'          => __( 'Blog Sidebar' ),
            'description'   => __( 'Sidebar for the posts page.' ),
            'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
            'after_widget'  => '</div>',
            'before_title'  => '<h3 class="widget-title">',
            'after_title'   => '</h3>',
        )
    );
    /* Repeat register_sidebar() code for additional sidebars. */
}

This is the code we use to call the sidebar in the blog page template (index.php):

<main id="main" class="site-main">
						<?php get_sidebar( 'blog' ); ?>
		<?php
		if ( have_posts() ) {

			// Load posts loop.
			while ( have_posts() ) {
				the_post();
				get_template_part( 'template-parts/content/content' );
			}

In the blog sidebar widget area, we then added the standard search, recent posts and archive blog widgets. We then styled them with CSS, which is below:

/* Search Bar and Widgets */
h3.widget-title {
	font-size: .85em;
	color: #333;
	font-weight: 500;
	text-transform: uppercase;
}
h3.widget-title:after {
    content: "";
    display: block;
    margin: 0;
    width: 50px;
    padding-top: 15px;
    border-bottom: 2px solid #999;
}
.widget_search .search-submit {
    display: block;
    margin-top: 1rem;
}
input.search-submit {
    transition: background         150ms ease-in-out;
    background: #5018c2;
    border: none;
    border-radius: 5px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 0.65em;
	  text-transform: uppercase;
    font-weight: 500;
    line-height: .85;
    outline: none;
    padding: 0.55rem .55rem;
    text-decoration: none;
    vertical-align: bottom;
}
.widget_search .search-field {
	width: 75%;
}
input.search-field {
	font-size: .85em;
}
.widget-title{
	font-size: .85em;
}
#sidebar-blog a {
	font-size: .85em;
	font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
	color: #666;
}
#sidebar-blog a:hover {
	font-size: .85em;
	font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
	color: #5018c2;
}
select#archives-dropdown-3 {
	font-size: .65em;
	font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", "Roboto", "Oxygen", "Ubuntu", "Cantarell", "Fira Sans", "Droid Sans", "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;
}
#sidebar-blog .post-date {
	font-size: .65em;
	font-weight: 400;
	letter-spacing: 1;
	font-style: italic;
		font-family: "NonBreakingSpaceOverride", "Hoefler Text", "Baskerville Old Face", Garamond, "Times New Roman", serif;
	color: #666;
}
#sidebar-blog {
	float: right;
	padding-right: 5px;
}

I should probably add that this has all been done in a child theme of Twenty Nineteen