UPDATE: I found a workaround to this issue. Although it doesn’t change the original problem, I did figure out how to NOT disable the sidebar on pages with Visual Composer content.

https://forum.tagdiv.com/topic/joke-no-sidebar-with-visual/#post-53451

Basically you add a line to the page.php file that tells the theme not to disable the sidebar on the default template, then you add the custom sidebar to the location specified on the page.

I’d still like to know what’s going on though, if you have an answer as to why my site isn’t saving sidebars.

UPDATE: It will not display the sidebar on any pages where there is shortcode. It doesn’t matter what type of shortcode, but any shortcode will make the sidebar disappear.

• This reply was modified 11 years by stephenwebb.