Missing Sidebar – but only sometimes.

look at index.php of your theme (which shows the latest post and the sidebar) and find the line <?php get_sidebar(); ?> or something very similar. then compare it with single.php (which shows individual post, and no sidebar) and copy the sidebar code into the corresponding place.

Alchymyth – thanks very much for your response.

Tried that in several differentways – but it just seemed to throw everything all over the post – bit like a car crash.

Anyway – I have now restored things to exactly how they were before.

It seems (to my uneducated eye) that there is a ‘what-if’ instruction in ‘single.php’ that refers to ‘blueberry_sidebar’.

Here is the code from single.php

++++++QUOTE+++++++++++

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”content” class=”<?php blueberry_sidebar(); ?>”>

<?php if ( have_posts() ) { while ( have_posts() ) { the_post(); ?>

<div class=”navigation”>
<div class=”alignleft”><?php previous_post_link(‘« %link’) ?></div>
<div class=”alignright”><?php next_post_link(‘%link »’) ?></div>
</div>
<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
<div class=”entry”>
<?php
the_content(‘<p>Continue reading ‘ . the_title(”, ”, false) . ‘ »</p>’);
wp_link_pages(
array(‘before’ => ‘<p>Pages: ‘,
‘after’ => ‘</p>’,
‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’
)
);
?>
</div><!– .entry –>
<p class=”postmeta center”>
” title=”<?php the_title(); ?>” rel=”bookmark”>
<?php the_title(); ?> was posted on <?php the_time(‘l, F jS, Y’) ?> at <?php the_time() ?>.
This post is tagged <?php the_tags(”, ‘, ‘, ”); ?> and is filed under <?php the_category(‘, ‘); ?>.
You can follow the replies through the <?php post_comments_feed_link(‘comments feed’); ?>.
<?php blueberry_response(); ?>
</p>
</div><!– .post #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> –>

<?php } } else { ?>

<h2 class=”center”>Not Found</h2>
<p class=”center”>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.</p>

<?php } ?>

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php comments_template(); ?>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>
<?php if ( get_option(‘blueberry_sidebar’) ) { get_sidebar(); } ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

+++++++UNQUOTE+++++++

Does this make a course of action any clearer ??

Many thanks for your help – it’s much appreciated.

Kind regards

Bill Smith

optimal – that means you can set the sidebar from:
admin dashbord -> appearance -> Blueberry options -> then in the top bar it should say ‘enable post sidebar’

no programming needed ??

Hi Alchymyth

Thanks for sticking with this one !

I did as you described – however – when I got to Blueberry Options the sidebar was already enabled. I disabled it – and the sidebar was gone altogether.

I then enabled it again – and the sidebar returned – but was empty as before.

The plot thickens.

Now I wish I had studied php sometime . . . !

Is there anything else I can check – or should I be thinking about abandoning ship and go find another theme and redo the whole presentation ?

It would be a shame as I really liked the simplicity of this theme.

Kind regards

Bill Smith

And another quick point on this same subject . . .

You see an empty sidebar from the URL:

https://gumdiseaseremedies.com/oramd-ingredients-heres-the-recipe/

But if you view the same page from the archives (which isn’t where people are naturally going to find it):

https://gumdiseaseremedies.com/category/gum-disease/page/2/

the sidebar is populated.

Is there any way to make the URL do the same as the archives ??

Many thanks – again.

Bill Smith

a way to do this:

enable the sidebar from the admin;

and edit single.php (i.e. remove the conditional stuff) – the last few lines should then look like this:

<?php endif; ?>

	</div>
<?php  get_sidebar();  ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

hope this works ??

Thanks for sticking with this . . . you’ve cracked it !!

It’s all working beautifully now.

I have stopped tearing my hair out and hopefully some will grow back in time for Christmas so I can face my relatives.

Thanks a million . . .

Kind regards

Bill Smith