Hi there,
We use the Newspaper Theme v 8.7.2. On our (static) Homepage and several other pages I want to place a sidebar where I can put a a page overview. I read almost all your tutorials about sidebars, tried everything I can think of, but can not get a sidebar in my template. I use tag_Div Composer for my pages. I tried standard Custumiser but that says there are 4 more widget area’s that can not been shown. Tried creating a new sidebar trough Template setting – Page Template – create new sidebar. Then I read I need a widgetised Sidebar block, but there is no widget to be found called Sidebar. I did try to place the widget Pages in Newpaper template, but that doesn’t do anything.
The pages have a big grid on top of the page. They need a single row. The template for pages is 3 rows wide, but has plenty of (white) space on the left and the right. I would like to be able to place a sidebar on the right side, to make navigation al lot easier for my visitors. Is there any way this is possible? How or where do I find a widgetised sidebar that I can customise myself? How to I even make room for a sidebar in this template, wich clearly doesn’t work trough template settings?
Any help is much appreciated!
Hello,
You said you already read all of the docs, but this is already covered.
In order to create a new sidebar, you can do it like mentioned here: https://forum.tagdiv.com/sidebars-tutorial/
You can then place widgets in your sidebar in the wp widgets area: https://www.screencast.com/t/DH2uvWDyN7xy
After your sidebar is created and has widgets added to it, you can use a widget sidebar on a page inside a split row. If you need to have the top row full, simply create another row below the full width one and split that one like so: https://www.screencast.com/t/smI9XQsx
Thank you!
Hi Bogdan, thanks for your answer. I did read the mentioned docs, but they do not solve my problem. I need a sidebar next to the big grid area, not in a split row beneith it. It’s white space, wich I can not do anything with. Not in standard Customiser or the tagDiv Composer. It is not accessable. The goal of my sidebar is to present a menu of pages, for easy navigation, but there are 53 pages, so it is a long sidebar. I could put it in a dropdown list in the home menu, but then not all pages are accessable because scrolling down the list will not work. At the end of the screen the dropdown will not continue while scrolling, but will disappear when reaching the bottom of the screen.
Maybe you have a suggestion for another aproach?
Thanks in advance Bogdan.
Hello,
Sorry but if you use a big grid, you will not be able to get a sidebar next to it. It is not allowed in our theme. If you want to get rid of the whit space, simply use a full width grid and occupy the entire width of the screen above the sidebar./ Our theme does not have a scroll widget sidebar element where you can place a long sidebar on a fixed width and a scroll bar on it. Sorry. You can place them in the menu and I can provide a css to make it scrollable. Create the menu element and provide a link to your site and I will provide the code.
Thank you!
Hi Bogdan,
Thanks for your help. The link to my site is http://www.regioonline.nl You can find the menu item with the dropdown list in the mainmenu. It is called ‘Kies uw regio’. If you could make a css code to make it scrollable I would be very thankfull. Please provide some info with it where to implement your code.
Thanks in advance for all your efforts Bogdan.
Hi,
Please add this code in your theme panel-> custom css box:
.menu-item-40906 .sub-menu{
height:500px;
overflow:scroll;
overflow-x:hidden;
}
You can change the height in pixels to the one you prefer
Thank you!
Thanks very much Bogdan. You taggled the problem for me. I am very gratefull for all your help. It works like a charm.
