bytetraveler

Aha – I couldn’t sleep, and without success on Google, I stumbled-upon the problem myself… Oddly, despite the fact I was joking about it (above) there literally is a line that “takes away” the gray beneath the sidebar on pages using single.php

In header.php, around line 20, remove the test for single, which forces the use of a different background image (one that lacks the elusive gray).

After modification, the line looks like this:

<?php /* Checks to see whether it needs a sidebar or not */ if (! $withcomments ) { ?>

…and life returns to normal.

Hope this helps someone else along the way.

Hello, Moshu & all!

I’ve tried the above, as well as the other trick floating-around.. Adding <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
just before <?php get_footer(); ?> (of course, after changing the content id to “narrowcolumn.”

Both techniques work quite well!

Only problem is that the newly aquired navbar in the single.php loses its background color…. Where it’s a light gray everywhere else (this is the default template), when it’s introduced to single.php, it’s a white background.

Same is true with both techniques – It’s almost as though, somewhere, there’s a line of code that says, “Make it gray everywhere, unless the file is called single.php” <smile>

Seriously – I’ve looked everywhere, and can’t figure out how to make it look as it does everywhere else now that I finally have the sidebar in sidebar.php

Thank you in advance for your guidance!