with with new post in Twenty Eleven

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  lynneayers · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 9:27 pm

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  Still getting set up here … using Twenty Eleven theme. When I create a new post it is putting in on a new page, thereby losing my sidebar. Why isn’t it coming in on the home page above previous posts? It has been formatted as “standard”. The post in question is about the cornwall art gallery …. can someone out there help?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 9:34 pm

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  Hello again,
  I’m sorry my explanation was not clear to you yesterday. The Twenty Eleven theme is coded not to display sidebars on single posts displayed in full on their own pages. You cannot change that. If you want a theme that does display sidebars an every page then you will have to change themes.

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  lynneayers · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 9:42 pm

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  I thought I understood – if I create a new page for a post that there would be no sidebar. However, I don’t want the post on a new page, I want it to stack above previous posts. It worked once for me as I have 2 posts there … I guess I don’t understand …

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 9:44 pm

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  Why isn’t it coming in on the home page above previous posts?

  There is only one dynamic page in a blog for posts. By default all published posts ought to display on the front page of your blog in reverse chronological order. The only time published posts and (not draft posts) do not display on the front page of the blog is if you create a static page. If you do not want all the posts to show on the front page, then you can create two pages first. One is for the “welcome” page or whatever you call your static front page and the other page is for your posts to display on “blog” or whatever you wish to call it. Then you go here > Settings > Reading and designate them.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/

  Set the Homepage

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  timethief · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 9:49 pm

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  I just thought of something else. If you temporarily designate a sticky post then it will always appear above your most recent post until you remove the sticky” designation.

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  lynneayers · Member · Jan 20, 2012 at 10:07 pm

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  It would seem to have been the sticky post that was causing the problem … so do I understand correctly that using twenty eleven, if I have designated a post as a sticky that subsequent posts will come up on a full page, no sidebar?

  If one has a static “welcome” page, how do peope navigate to the posts page – through a custom menu?

  I appreciate your help …