Blog Sidebar Missing

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  gregpoppleton · Member · Mar 14, 2021 at 1:31 am

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  I had a sidebar, now it does not show. If I load widgets to blog sidebar they go to footer.
  My site is https://gregpoppleton.wordpress.com/. How can this be fixed? I’ve put in a video widget to test. Thank you, Greg

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 14, 2021 at 8:07 am

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  Hello there, this is odd. The theme showcase page for Twenty Seventeen https://wordpress.com/theme/twentyseventeen only mentions widgets in the footer, but looking at a Google cache of your Photos tag page, I definitely see a sidebar there.

  I’ve gone ahead and flagged this thread for Staff attention and assistance. Thanks for your patience while they get back to you.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 14, 2021 at 8:11 am

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  I’ve also grabbed some screenshots, which can temporarily be seen here https://cloudup.com/ck8tR9L6fwh

  The first three screenshots are from Google’s cached version from March 1 and the last screenshot is the tags page directly from the current website.

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  gregpoppleton · Member · Mar 14, 2021 at 8:42 am

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  Thank you, Just Jennifer. Cheers, Greg

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  staff-mckluskey · Staff · Mar 15, 2021 at 10:51 am

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  Hi Greg!

  The sidebar widgets are still in the sidebar, but they will not be displayed on your homepage.
  When adding the widgets to the sidebar, you’ll see this:

  Add widgets here to appear in your sidebar on blog posts and archive pages.

  On the homepage, those widgets will be moved to the footer.

  I hope that helps :).

  You can also consider changing your theme to a different one. You can try themes without activating them by clicking on the three dots next to the theme’s name and choosing the option Try&Customize.

  

  This will allow you to see how the theme would look like with your content and how you could customize it.

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  justjennifer · Member · Mar 15, 2021 at 11:14 am

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  Thank you staff-mckluskey I completely missed this:

  The blog, archive, search, and single blog posts also include a sidebar widget area. When enabled, the content will appear in one column, and the widgets in the other. This happens even if you’re using the one column layout.

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  gregpoppleton · Member · Mar 15, 2021 at 11:54 am

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  Many thanks staff-mckluskey and @justjennifer for your time and effort in researching solutions to this problem. Very much appreciated. I will also check out other themes. Best Regards, Greg