I’ve looked through posts and some documentation you have about the side-bars, but I’m still a little confused and could use some help/further clarification, please.
I’ve looked at the following two links for example:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/sidebars-tutorial/
and
https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/deleted-sidebar-only-from-homepage/
So I installed the demo site for Crypto News Pro, and everything is going great, but then some things started to confuse me…
When I create a new Post, I have my default sidebar that came with the theme loading fine and it looks great.
When I create a new Page, I have no default sidebar, and I just have my default header and footer.
I also navigated in WordPress Admin to => NewsPaper => Theme panel = Template Settings => Page template (custom sidebar + position) is set to RIGHT position, and the “Default Sidebar” is selected…
Then I started asking myself, “how does wordpress even know what my default sidebar should look like?”
When I go into the WordPress Admin portal and go to Appearance => Widgets it’s just just empty when I expand the Newspaper default
When I try to use TagDiv Composer to edit the already-created (brand new) WordPress Page, the Page formatting looks totally broken…I’ve tried to build a new sidebar via the documented techniques, then when I save or preview the Page, I see my new Sidebar on the Page, but my Page content is completely gone…
So three questions please:
1) How do I find where my current default sidebar settings are from within WordPress/NewsPaper Theme? I dont understand how all of my new WordPress Posts are showing a default Sidebar, but in my Appearance => Widgets there is no Default Sidebar configured.
2) Is there a way to simply enable the same default sidebar on my WordPress Pages? (The same sidebar that currently shows up on all of my Posts).
3) Or whats the easiest way to add a new Sidebar to my Pages, without the content of my Pages breaking/disappearing when I edit them with the TagDiv Composer, and add a manual/new Sidebar?
FYI the only plugins on my brand new WordPress install currently, are YaySMTP/WooCommerce/WP Forms (and Newspaper Theme).
Thank you in advance for your time and help.
Hello @airenegade !
Some of the widgets are default set like that. If you edit a page, then you can see the settings: https://prnt.sc/n2fiNJYkQpSh
You can add any element to the sidebar in the TagDiv Composer. If you add it to a template and make it global, then it will appear on every page that has been assigned that template. You can build a sidebar with the TagDiv Composer. Steps:
1. Insert one new row (or delete an existing one).
2. Divide into two columns (2/3 + 1/3).
3. You can add whatever element you want to the second column and consider it a sidebar.
A shortcode can be inserted by using the element called “Column text” or “Text with title”. For example, in the step3 here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/add-cryptocurrency-price-ticker-widget/
“Column text” and “text with title” elements have a button called “edit content” and if you click on that button, the WP Editor will open, and you can add some text/code/shortcode there. Close the WP Editor from X, save the changes from Composer and view the page to see the changes.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for your time and help with this. It is very helpful. I havent had the chance the execute all of it, but I understand everything you noted and I’ll look forward to trying it out tomorrow. I’ll post back with any further questions; otherwise thanks again for your help with this! Have a great week ahead. 🙂
