sidebar not showing in Twenty Eleven theme

  • Resolved RebeccaInMI

    (@rebeccainmi)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    I installed WordPress on a subdomain so I could play around with it and get it “dialed in” before I upgrade the current site that everybody sees. It’s here: wordpress.ziggysauto.com.

    I feel like the world’s biggest moron, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why nothing displays in the sidebar. The search box and the meta options should be appearing there. I do not have any active plugins and I’m using the Twenty Eleven theme. If I switch to the Twenty Ten theme, the stuff in the sidebar shows up.

    What am I doing wrong? Do I need to reinstall?

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  • By default, TwentyEleven only shows sidebars on the Home and sitemap pages.

    The Twenty Eleven Theme Extensions plugin claims to allow sidebars to be added back.

    Thread Starter RebeccaInMI

    (@rebeccainmi)

    Good to know, but I still don’t know why the sidebar isn’t showing on the page I set as the homepage. Any thoughts on that?

    What template is assigned to the front page?

    Thread Starter RebeccaInMI

    (@rebeccainmi)

    The front/home page has the default template. I really haven’t done much at all besides putting in some dummy text, changing the header picture to a one that I uploaded, and changing the color of the font for the title. All those are things that I did from “theme options”.

    Simplest solution is to create a page called “home” and use one of the sidebar templates.
    in your settings, tell wordpress you are using “home” for the front page of your blog.
    Add the page to your menu so it shows up. I’m sure I’m forgetting something but this will let you have sidebars.

    Here’s a recent site built using the twenty eleven theme that shows what you want
    the fourth chakra

    Thread Starter RebeccaInMI

    (@rebeccainmi)

    In the end, I’m planning on using another theme besides the Twenty Eleven theme. I just thought it would be a good idea to play with plugins, etc. in Twenty Eleven. That way, if a plugin works in Twenty Eleven but not in another theme, and I ask here for help and someone says “go back to the Twenty Eleven theme, disable all other plugins, and blah blah blah” I can do that and know that everything else works.

    I think I’ll just delete the installation and re-install and see if the sidebar works then. I wasn’t that far into playing with it anyway.

    Thread Starter RebeccaInMI

    (@rebeccainmi)

    Wow, I am a nincompoop. I reinstalled after clearing the DB tables and the sidebar doesn’t display if I make a static page the homepage. It’s supposed to be that way in Twenty Eleven, apparently. I originally thought one of the plugins I had installed and then deleted had corrupted my installation somehow, but nope.

    Sorry for wasting everyone’s time.

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