side bar not displaying

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  bluekangeroo · Member · Jun 27, 2015 at 8:44 am

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  I added a follow via email widget to my sidebar but the side bar is not displaying – it is just showing the full width template and I can’t see where to change this. I’ve only just begun setting this up and thought the side-bar was default?

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  ehtis · Staff · Jun 27, 2015 at 2:04 pm

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  It should appear if you’ve added it to the sidebar.

  Try this, go here:
  https://wordpress.com/customize/sewhappie.wordpress.com

  Then Widgets > Sidebar and add the widget you want to the sidebar. Don’t forget to click Save & Publish.

  This will also instantly show you the preview as you add/remove widgets to the sidebar, so you’d know if they’re appearing fine or not.

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  bluekangeroo · Member · Jun 28, 2015 at 6:24 am

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  Thanks – that’s werid. That is exactly what I did. But it wasn’t showing on the front end. I could see that the follow blog widget was saved and installed in the sidebar in the back end, but not displaying.

  I tried deleting it and doing those steps again and now it appears.

  Thank you.

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  musicdoc1 · Member · Jun 28, 2015 at 7:18 am

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  @ bluekangeroo,

  Where the sidebar widget area displays depends upon the screen size, and zoom settings. It displays in the sidebar on my 12″ x 9″ screen at the default zoom setting (Firefox 38.0.5), but displays below the posts stream, containing one post presently, if I zoom in three clicks.