Widget on one page – blog?

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    alexcornes · Member ·

    Hey!
    Any help would be greatly appreciated on this matter, google and trawling these forums has failed me already and my apologies if this is, as it likely is, already covered.

    I have created several static pages, and one blog page on my website.

    I would love to be able to add widgets to allow people to search through catergories and previous posts on my blog page, however I would not like for these to show on my other pages such as about me and gallery, where they would be out of place.

    Is this possible, and if so, how would I go about doing this?

    Many thanks for any help or suggestions,
    Alex.

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

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    timethief · Member ·

    Some themes allow for optional sidebar displays on single post pages and static pages and some do not. Go to one of your static pages and edit it. Look in the far right hand column in the Page attributes box. Click “Templates“. If your blog supports the “full width“display then that will appear as a selection in the drop-down. Click it and then click “update”. http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/#template

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    alexcornes · Member ·

    Thanks for the response.
    I’m not entirely sure I understand just reading that, but I’ll look into it and I’m sure I’ll figure it out.

    Just to clarify in case I have slightly mis-stated what I am trying to achieve if possible, my website is – http://alexcornes.com – and I would like to be able to add widgets to the news page (my blog section) and nowhere else.

    Is that what your post is explaining to do?

    Thanks again!
    Alex.

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    timethief · Member ·

    I did not have time to load a test blog with Chunk and then follow the instructions I posted above. See these lists for themes that have optional sidebars.
    http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/sidebars-and-other-widget-areas/

    Widgets on static pages or single posts

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Alex, it doesn’t appear as if Chunk supports “page templates.”

    in newer themes here such as Chunk, you can style pages separately through CSS (the custom design upgrade) and with that upgrade, you could exclude the widgets from all but the post related pages (blog, categories, archives) if you wished.

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