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The default template shows the sidebar only on selected pages. I often make a design decision to display the sidebar on every or nearly every page. This is a fairly straightforward set of template edits. As an example, we will work with the template single.php. This is the template which displays individual posts

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Narrow Column

The default single.php has its content div set to widecolumn. This needs to be changed to narrowcolumn.

<div id="content" class="widecolumn">
to
<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">

Display Sidebar

Now display the sidebar by adding the following code just before the get_footer call.

FROM
<?php get_footer(); ?>

TO
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Wow, it doesn’t get much easier than that! Now you know how to convert from without sidebar to with sidebar displays.

Reference links:

• WordPress Site Architecture