Missing sidebar on blog

Hi Jason,

Ideally, all of your templates should be using the same sidebar by default. Then you would just replace the sidebar for individual pages and the blog, posts, and other archive templates would continue to display the default sidebar.

That ‘Default Sidebar’ setting should be set to a generic sidebar in your theme rather than a specific one like ‘home.’ It’s the one that will be replaced by the sidebars you create for your pages.

It’s a confusing concept to try to explain, especially without knowing how exactly your theme is calling various sidebars, but let me know if that doesn’t help.

– Brady

It’s a Woo theme, I don’t see any options for setting sidebars–

When I go to Widgets I see the sidebar I’m using as default “Sidebar Home”, but I also see 2 sidebars that were once there “Sidebar Blog” “Sidebar Page”. With the plug-in I’ve easily been able to replace the “sidebar home” with created sidebars without issue.

On the blog and pages where it’s missing –

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

On the index.php

<?php get_sidebar('home'); ?>

However I’ve tried adding the ‘home’ in there for where it’s missing sidebars and doesn’t seem to be updating.

Ideally would like to set the ‘home’ as default and what would appear on the blog/archives as there seems to be no setting for that. And then replace individually on the pages where can easily replace or leave as is. Thanks for your help

It sounds like you should be using the original Home and Blog sidebars for their intended purposes and set the original Page sidebar to be the default so that you can replace it for individual pages.

Changing that get_sidebar() call like that will actually load a different template file if it’s available. Instead, you would have to open sidebar.php and look for the dynamic_sidebar() functions and change those, but I’d recommend trying to work with the original sidebars if possible.

This plugin was primarily developed to work with pages, so if you don’t think it’ll work for your needs, Woo has a plugin called WooSidebars that you might look into.