Left and Right Sidebar with Blog?

Greetings…for pages, yes, for the blog, unfortunately no. Even my pro version does not have this option. It’s generally a rare thing now for blogs to have both the left and right columns, so I left that out. Sorry about that.

Any chance you’ll revisit this decision?
There are several cases I can think of that would take advantage of a left/right blog. Here’s one:
I want to put the list of related blog entries on the right hand side so visitors can easily find related posts.
For this specific post, however, I might want to provide a CTA on the left-hand side. (Yes, I could bury the CTA into the post, but in some cases it would be best to have it outside the content).

This theme needs some updating, since it’s been quite awhile and know there are some things that can be enhanced, so I will take another look and consideration of a three column blog option.

Thanks for the amazingly quick response!

I was trying out several other themes to see if I could get my site to be more like I was imagining, but everyone of them was more trouble than it was worth. I’ve got my site working pretty much the way I need it – with a few weird things – the left/right sidebar being one of them and an uncooperative Events Calendar feature being another.

But after several days of window shopping and trying things out, I’ve decided the effort to make those other themes behave themselves in the way Emphasize is already behaving just isn’t worth it.

So…I’ll try and figure out how to live with the weirdnesses until I can make them go away.

Again – thank you for your responsiveness.

No worries…but when you say weirdness, is this related to other themes or does it include Emphasize as well? Also, when you say “weirdness”, what specifically are you referring to?

Sorry for the ambiguity. I’m usually pretty precise about this stuff.

Okay. I’ve got The Events Calendar plug-in – and it provides its own set of page templates…or, it permits me to use the theme’s template. Its settings also let me specify how to display the list of events (as complete, or as excerpts).

When I specify “excerpts” and use anything other than the “Default Events Template” (whether from TEC folks, or from Emphasize, the display (I’m not sure whether it is technically a post or a page) of the list of events comes out as “gobbledy gook:”

Find Events Events From Upcoming Events Events List Navigation ? Previous Events November 2015 Leo Guest Lectures at Clark College UX Course November 19 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Leo will entertain and regale Clark College students in Robert Hughes’ UX class about Presumptive Design, among many other…

I’m not sure what that problem is all about, but it is one of the issues – another is the formatting for headers and such within the events themselves.

I’m considering abandoning TEC as a plug-in and trying something else. There are a ton of other issues with it and what I really need – so the above may be moot. (But the desire for a 2-sidebar template on a post is independent of TEC’s faiings…)

Thanks

Sometimes with plugins (especially with big ones) that offer their own templates, can be a challenge to have it work with a theme’s own design and sometimes it’s the other way around, or both at the same time. Most of the time, plugins are not developed and designed with a specific theme in mind, so they often do their own designs with a more generic layout structure and style. When things look out of place or just ugly in a theme, it usually means the end-user needs to create some enhancements using custom CSS.

Anyway, I made a note that I will be adding the extra blog layout for three columns (left + content + right). As to when this will go live, hard to say right now, but my best guess is within the next couple of weeks due to my heavy schedule at the moment.

In the next couple of weeks would be great. I’m fiddling around with the site and we’ll be starting to add more content in the next month, so whatever you come up with would be swell.

Thanks!