The option “Allow this sidebar to be replaced” is not available.

Hello @fridgedoctor, hope all is well!

The “Allow this sidebar to be replaced” is located at the Theme’s Sidebars section, at the bottom of each theme widget.

Please see this screenshot.

If the sidebars are not lining up with your main content, this can be fixed with CSS code. Please share a link to a page with this issue and so we could provide the right CSS code.

Cheers,
Nastia

My reply didn’t go through. I see by your screenshot that custom sidebars do not have the “Allow this sidebar to be replaced” option, only the theme sidebars. So that in fact is not a problem after all. But I do still need my sidebar to lineup on all of my pages, not just some.

I also sent the link to my website, here it is again, https://tinyurl.com/lq9qruk

Thank you Nastia

Hello @fridgedoctor

Please add the following CSS code to Additional CSS filed by editing your current theme with Appearance > Customizer. Or add it to your theme’s CSS editor:

.page-id-8 .sidebar {
    position: absolute;
    left: 660px;
    top: 365px;
}

If you don’t have a CSS editor, please try the Simple Custom CSS plugin.

Let me know how it went!

Cheers,
Nastia

Hello Nastia,

Thank you for that CSS script. It seems to work for the home page, so that is good news. However, that is the only page it seems to work on, as none of the other pages that are affected have changed. There are about a handful of pages plus my blog posts that the sidebars, and they are different sidebars on both pages and my blog posts, that lineup fine, no changes. But the majority of the pages the sidebar is still aligning underneath the main column.

Please advise.

Scott

@fridgedoctor sorry for the delay. You should be able to get this on every page by removing the page id.

.sidebar {
    position: absolute;
    left: 660px;
    top: 365px;
}

Hope that helps!

Well, im still having a problem, but only on less than a handful of pages. There is just no consistency as to the types of pages / blog, nor the sidebar.

From what I can see, if you go to the schedule service page, the icemaker repair page under services, or the blog, the sidebar starts like a third of the way down the column.

But from what i can tell so far, every other page is ok.
any advice?

Thanks
Scott

I am having issues with this again, but only on less than a dozen pages from what I can tell, including my home page and my blog among others. It is the same sidebar on the pages that work and the pages that dont. I still have the additional CSS you instructed me to add.

Please advise

Scott

Hi Scott,

Can you try adding this code to fix it on the home page:

.home .sidebar {
    top: 0;
}

And for the other pages that have same issue just copy the code and replace .home with .page-id-X and that should do the trick.
For example, like this:

.page-id-X .sidebar {
    top: 0;
}

Where X is ID of your page.

Cheers,
Predrag

First, thank you for your response.

Secondly, the code for the home page works like a charm.

Question for the code RE: the other pages;, if the page im referring is https://www.example.com/this-page.html, what exactly is the page ID?

Is it this-page, this-page.html, /this-page, /this-page.html?

What is the exact syntax im using for the ID?

Thanks again Predrag

Scott

Oh, also, will this code in anyway interfere with this code :\

.sidebar {
position: absolute;
left: 660px;
top: 365px;
}

thanks again

Hello @fridgedoctor,

Question for the code RE: the other pages;, if the page im referring is https://www.example.com/this-page.html, what exactly is the page ID?

Is it this-page, this-page.html, /this-page, /this-page.html?

ID is number. When you edit page in WP-AMIDN you can see ID in the url of the page, something like that:

post.php?post=61&action=edit

where 61 is ID. On your site it will be different number.

Oh, also, will this code in anyway interfere with this code :\

Yes, it will override it, but only on the specific page, one you will use ID. It will change the top value on that specific page. It will not change it on other pages.

kind regards,
Kasia

Awesome Sauce!

Thank You Kasia