Adding page sidebar to WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme.

Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:42:51 +0000

The WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme was exactly what I needed to update the look and feel of the Visible Orbit project website, except for one thing: No sidebar on pages, only posts. For the Visible Orbit website, having the site information and navigation visible on the page-heavy site is quite important:

Getting the sidebar to show on pages seems to be a popular question online. Besides just hacking the source, the only nicely packaged solution is this plugin by Joachim Jensen. However, for that to render correctly, you have to set page layout to “one column”, but that setting is exposed only if your front page is static, which is not the case for the Visible Orbit site.

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Adding page sidebar to WordPress Twenty Seventeen theme.