Missing sidebar

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  lukeonlanguages · Member · Jun 6, 2017 at 7:49 am

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  Hello,

  For some reason I can not see my sidebar on my wordpress blog/posts. I have added some widgets in under the widget section in appearence and checked my theme options and it is set to have my blog on the left side. I have checked my page options and set them all sidebar template but for some reason I still can’t see my sidebar and I am not sure why. Any help would be apprecieated on how to get this to show. Thanks

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Jun 6, 2017 at 6:10 pm

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  Hi –

  Which site are you working on? Please share the address here and I’ll be happy to see what is going on.

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  lukeonlanguages · Member · Jun 7, 2017 at 6:39 am

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  Hi,

  Thanks. Here is my site URL: http://www.lukeonlanguages.wordpress.com/

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Jun 7, 2017 at 3:43 pm

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  Good Morning –

  For reference this is the theme demo for Twenty Eleven: https://twentyelevendemo.wordpress.com/

  Your settings are configured with the widgets at the bottom of your page rather than in a sidebar. Read over the ‘Multiple Layouts’ section in the theme setup: https://wordpress.com/theme/twentyeleven

  Did you want your widgets to the left or right on your page?

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  lukeonlanguages · Member · Jun 8, 2017 at 6:21 am

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  ah ok, I wanted to keep the widgets at the bottom and add a sidebar on the right hand side? Is that not possible with the free version then? If I had to choose I would put my widgets on the RHS . Thanks for your help

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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 10, 2017 at 11:05 pm

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  Hey there, I hope you don’t mind me jumping in to help. Have you tried going to Customize > Layout ?

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  lukeonlanguages · Member · Jun 11, 2017 at 4:10 pm

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  Yes I have it set to content on left.

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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 12, 2017 at 9:18 pm

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  OK. This theme will display one side or the other, not both. If you need sidebars on both sides, maybe one of these will do?
  https://oxygendemo.wordpress.com
  https://adaptiondemo.wordpress.com/

  You can look for more here:
  https://wordpress.com/themes/filter/three-columns

  Also, I’ve noticed that in most cases, only older themes have sidebars on both sides. There are some newer ones that have two sidebars on a single side though, like this one:
  https://ceraunodemo.wordpress.com/

  I hope that helps.

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  lukeonlanguages · Member · Jun 13, 2017 at 7:51 am

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  Thanks for all of the help. Sorry if I wasn’t clear before but I wanted to be able to keep my picture widgets at the bottom of the page and have a sidebar on the right side if possible. I don’t want to have two sidebards. Thanks again for your response, I really appreciate the help

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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 16, 2017 at 7:35 pm

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  @lukeonlanguages can you go ahead and add a few widgets to the sidebar at https://wordpress.com/customize >?