Side bar not showing

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  andrewharris1970 · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 2:03 pm

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  The sidebar on my site is not showing even though I have added two widgets to it.

  you can only get to it via a button shown as 3 dots which appears as last menu item. How do I make it appear as a side bar?

  Thanks

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  megz0114 · Member · Mar 18, 2015 at 8:24 pm

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  It looks like you are currently using the Suburbia theme. In the theme description under widgets it says

  Suburbia supports five widget optional areas — four in the footer and one in the sidebar in single post and page views.

  I activated this theme on my test blog and on my home page where my blog posts are there wasn’t a sidebar. However particular posts and my pages, the side bar showed. If you want a sidebar on your home/posts page you’ll need a different theme.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 19, 2015 at 3:07 pm

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  Hi Andrew – did megz0114’s advice help? The setup guide for Suburbia is here:

  https://theme.wordpress.com/themes/suburbia/

  You can see the sidebar when you preview your first post:

  https://andrewjharrisphotography.wordpress.com/?p=2&preview=true

  Since you haven’t yet published any posts – where the sidebar is visible – you won’t see it on your site yet.