sidebar issues

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  jessiruth26 · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 4:24 pm

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  My sidebar is only appearing on one page. How do I get it to apply on all pages?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:14 pm

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  First you need to consult your theme description and determine whether or not the theme is designed to have a sidebar on all pages in the blog. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/twentyeleven/

  Twenty Eleven is not designed to have a sidebar on single posts when displayed on their own pages.

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  stepasyuk · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:24 pm

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  jessiruth26, try to edit your page and specify there Template called “Sidebar template” (block on the right side of editor screen called “Page Attributes”) and update the page. Then you will see sidebar on this page.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:30 pm

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  @jessiruth26
  Read more about the theme in question here > Twenty Eleven

  Also note that in addition to what stepasyuk posted there are conditional visibility settings on widgets. Widgets now have “visibility” settings so we can select which pages they display on. See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

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  jessiruth26 · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:52 pm

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  Thank you. Twenty Eleven wasn’t the theme I should have chosen… for what I wanted.

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  timethief · Member · Aug 18, 2013 at 9:55 pm

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  You’re welcome. Do note that you can quickly and easily change themes to another one found here http://wordpress.com/themes/

  Provided you are logged in as Admin under the same username account that registered the blog go to Dashboard > Appearance > Themes and browse themes until you find one you like and click “activate” or type in the name of the theme you want to use and
  click the “activate” link when it appears.

  After you change your theme all you need to do is go here Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets > Inactive Widgets and re-install them where you want them to appear. The widget contents and settings will be the same as they were prior to changing themes.