Add SIDEBAR to static front page in CANAPE theme

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  loveyourspaceandyourstuff · Member · Jun 25, 2016 at 8:17 pm

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  Theme: CANAPE

  I would like to add a sidebar to my homepage. The exact same side bar that is on every page of my website.

  I had a sidebar on the front page/homepage previously and I changed things so that my blog posts would be the first thing that a visitor would see at studioCwest.com. This also had a side bar. Recently, I change things back to a static front page. When I visited the site today I noticed the missing sidebar.

  Please help.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 25, 2016 at 8:21 pm

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  To be clear one cannot add a sidebar to any theme that is not designed to have one. Also note that if the theme is designed to have a sidebar when using a apeeofic layout then you have to set widget visibility.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  Every theme has a detailed theme description page with set up instructions like this one https://wordpress.com/themes/canape/ and a live demo site like this one https://canapedemo.wordpress.com/

  That is where you need to go at this point and then scroll down to Widget Areas on that page.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Jun 27, 2016 at 3:55 pm

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  Looks like you’ve switched to Orvis, but to answer your question about Canape:

  Canape has a sidebar on the blog page, as well as single posts, which you can see in these examples from the demo:

  Blog: https://canapedemo.wordpress.com/news/

  Single: https://canapedemo.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/winter-menu/

  It also includes two footer widget areas (displayed everywhere) and three front-page widget areas, which are visible when the front page is set to a static page.

  If you need further help just let me know.