How do I get sidebar?
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I changed my layout and now have no tags or lists of posts, which I’d like. How do I get that back?
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Every theme has a detailed theme description page and this one is at https://wordpress.com/themes/twentysixteen/ That’s where set up instructions for it are found. The live demo site is at https://twentysixteendemo.wordpress.com/
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I’ve just read over the page again and altho it says the sidebar is optional, I can’t find where you actually put the sidebar in!
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On the theme description page I read:
Widget Areas
Twenty Sixteen has a traditional right sidebar for widgets. It also has two Content Bottom Widget Areas that will display below your content on single posts and pages.
To add widgets to the Content Bottom Widget Areas, navigate to a single post or page in the Customizer, open the Widgets panel, and add your favorite widgets to one or both areas.
See here for using the customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
All widgets can be installed and uninstalled at
http://ronnascakeblog.wordpress.com/wp-admin/widgets.php -
Thanks. But I don’t want widgets. I just want the classic sidebar with lists of posts, categories JUST LIKE in the sample they show. I thought that was what I was going to get.
I now wish I hadn’t changed my page.
This is much harder than I thought and I’m a little sad about the change. Pretty but now what I wanted…I appreciate your help but I didn’t think that tags and categories were considered widgets? -
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If you do not set up any widgets then they will not display.
Are you clear on that?
All widgets are listed here https://en.support.wordpress.com/category/widgets-sidebars/ where you can click the links to the ones you want to use and read the installation information on each one.I didn’t think that tags and categories were considered widgets?
Categories and categories can be assigned to posts (not pages) and displayed in related widgets such as:
Categories Widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/categories-widget/
Category Cloud Widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/category-cloud-widget/
Tag Cloud Widget https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/tag-cloud-widget/ -
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You pointed me in the right direction! Many thanks. I had no idea about widgets being categories and tags. Duh. Anyhow, you really helped. I appreciate you setting me straight on this. Many, many thanks.
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Hard to believe. Even a luddite like me can do WordPress! Again, thanks for your input and hand holding!!
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