Making the sidebar visible by default

  • Resolved A.N.D.

    (@and-1)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    Hello,

    I would like to make the sidebar visible by default for this theme.

    I’m not a coder but can follow explicit instructions if someone can help.

    Self-hosted on Hostgaotr CPanel interface using latest version of WordPress.

    Site in question is https://www.accessnewsdaily.com
    The reason I want to do this is that the majority of my visitors are blind or vision impaired, and the ‘hide/show’ sidebar buttons in the theme are unlabelled (i.e. not announced by screen readers), so visitors are likely unaware they can even make the sidebar visible. I wish to take that out of the equation by making it visible by default.

    Many thanks,
    Ted

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  • Theme Author ArrayHQ

    (@okaythemes)

    Hi Ted,

    Thanks for your patience on this request. This should be a pretty quick fix.

    Open up header.php and look for <?php get_sidebar(); ?>. Move this line to just after the #site-navigation div just a few lines up. It should look like this: https://cl.ly/Yu6W

    Once you have the widget area moved, you can choose to hide the toggle bar if you don’t need it. You could add a bit of CSS to do that. This will hide the toggle bar entirely.

    .toggle-bar { display: none; }

    You can add this CSS to the bottom of your style.css file or edit the .toggle-bar styles directly.

    Hope that helps!

    Hi,

    This solution worked perfectly and was really helpful.

    Can you tell me how I would add space and a horizontal line between the bottom of the menu and the start of the widgets (search box in this case)?

    Site- https://stinginbelle.co.uk/

    Cheers,
    Marc

    Theme Author ArrayHQ

    (@okaythemes)

    Hi Marc,

    You might try adding some CSS like this: 

    .widget-area {
  margin-top: 30px;
  padding-top: 30px;
  display: inline-block;
  border-top: solid 2px #eeeeee;
}

    Perfect thanks ??

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