Widget menu on every page
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I’m not very techincal. On my blog, the right hand menu (widgets) is great on the home page, but it doesn’t appear on any other pages. Like if someone goes to an older post or something. How can I make it appear on every page?
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Hi tashakatt,
This support doc should help you understand the visibility settings of widgets and how you can configure them for your needs:
In a nutshell, you should be able to control where a widget is displayed or not displayed through the Visibility panel. You would go to Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets. This section of the support doc link above explains Widget Visibility.
We hope that helps.
Martin
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Hi – and thanks. I know where to find them… and have tried to organize it many times with no success. Tried again but no luck.
Let’s be honest, I just want to write. Not spend hours and hours organizing. Which I’ve done with this problem. Guess I’m super frustrated
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Hi again!
So sorry you are getting frustrated, and the delay in a follow-up response from me. Would you be able to provide more details about exactly how you’d like to display which widget and where?
Martin
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I just want the right-hand menu bar I see on my ‘home page’ to be on every post I open. If it moved with the viewer (ie moved down when they scrolled down) it would be even better.
I tried everything yesterday and it didn’t work. I gave up (again) since I’ve spent hours on this. Not exactly user-friendly or self-explanatory. Maybe because I use the free WordPress?
There are other things wrong too … like I can’t add photos I’ve already loaded to WP into a new post because I don’t have that menu. I need post it, then go into edit to add media. When I add a photo, I can’t subtitle it other than in edit after posting. I think I broke WordPress… lol
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Hi Natasha,
Ah thanks for clarifying what you need.
From the Visibility panel of the sidebar, for each widget you should currently have Show if: Page is Page or maybe Page is Front Page. What you want to do is click on the ‘Add’ link next to that setting and then select Page from the left drop down and then Post from the right drop down.
You would end up repeating the above steps for:
- Recent Posts
- Archives
- Top Posts
Remember to press Save as you make the changes.
There is a screenshot in the Widgets support doc: Widget Visibility that shows how that would look like.
I hope that makes sense. The good news is that there is no way that you’ve broken WordPress.
Martin
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Hi Natasha,
Ah thanks for clarifying what you need.
From the Visibility panel of the sidebar, for each widget you should currently have Show if: Page is Page or maybe Page is Front Page. What you want to do is click on the ‘Add’ link next to that setting and then select Page from the left drop down and then Post from the right drop down.
You would end up repeating the above steps for:
- Recent Posts
- Archives
- Top Posts
Remember to press Save as you make the changes.
There is a screenshot in the Widgets support doc: Widget Visibility that shows how that would look like.
I hope that makes sense. The good news is that there is no way that you’ve broken WordPress.
Martin
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About photos you’ve already uploaded, are you saying that you are unable to include captions underneath the images that you’ve already uploaded previously?
Regarding the sidebar moving with the viewer as users scroll up or down (or sticky sidebar widgets), I don’t think that you can do that at all, but I’d recommend posting a separate question in the forum about it. It might be theme related, but I have only seen it in self-hosted WordPress sites.
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Thank you so much for your help.
I read that widget page again. I configured the visibility as you suggested. It didn’t work. I also tried a few other options using the visibility parameters. Nothing.
I think I’m having some problems with WP – because as I mentioned there are other ongoing issues – like accessing menus for posted photos (which I used to have), drafts problems, and this. I think either it’s the theme I chose or WP just doesn’t work for me.
LOL… I know I didn’t break WP. It’s just a problematic system and I don’t really want to migrate my blog elsewhere or spend any more time trying to fix something that should not be rocket-science.
Again thanks for all your time and help!
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