How do I build a sidebar?

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Hi there,
I just bought this theme and am building it on our staging site. There’s a really simple thing I can’t figure out: how do I build a sidebar? When I look at the demo, I see homepages where there are two colums of featured articles and then a third column with different contents. However, when I try to drag elements from composer into the layout, everything defaults to being three columns wide. How do I create a veritcal widget page on the home page? Thanks!

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Hello,
You can use the widgets for sidebar – https://i.imgur.com/2vbC0nh.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/ub4k0vl.png and for pages you can indeed created sidebars using tagDiv Composer, select the row and choose a layout with 2, 3 columns – https://i.imgur.com/Y6tCJrr.jpg then just drag the elements from tagDiv Composer in columns where you want to be displayed. – https://i.imgur.com/YVWhdgF.jpg
I hope this will help you!

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Hello, My TagDiv composer does not give me the option to set colums. It looks nothing like the image you posted. All it does is give me the option to add elements. THAT’S IT. How do I access the other functionality?

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Update: I’ve figured out where the row/column functions are BUT, how do I set it so that my top slider is 3 columns wide but the content underneath is 2/1? Right now, if I choose 2/1 then EVERYTHING is 2/1.

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I usually do the sidebar at top of the two column grid.

[ slider xxxxx] [sidebar]
[ second feature]
[ col a][col b ]

  • This reply was modified 2 years by simchris.
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I’m not sure I follow. Are you saying I have to code it? I can’t just set one block to be three column and one to be two?

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Hi HeatherKitching, you can add more rows and choose for each one the layout of columns you need. Also, you can use inner row inside the column row. – https://i.imgur.com/LUghZSL.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/OS2rDMD.png
Thank you!

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