Eric Marantan

How to Add Sidebar to the WordPress page or Single post

In editing your templates for your wordpress blog, every pages and single posts are very important to your business and good extented for your traffics. So you must make it look nice with a professionally view for the readers. As we see the title above which is “how to add sidebar to the wordpress page or single post“. The sidebar of your blog is very important it’s include the links or blogroll to your friend’s network, a links from your bookmarked sites or an interesting sites from an useful sites. It also include your archives, the categories, advertisements and many more.

I was trying to edit my default wordpress templates yesterday just to add my sidebar to the wordpress page or single post but I could make it align as it look in my homepage. I am new to web developing and web designing that’s why I am hardly to edit some css and php codes of my template. I keep on reading some different article on how can I fix this and here what I learn my sidebar to the single page is working for now.
Here’s what I did:

You need to change the column width from wide to narrow to make room for the sidebar. At the top line of your page.php or single.php file in your default theme, you may change the following code:

<div id=”content” class=”widecolumn”>
Change it to:
<div id=”content” class=”narrowcolumn”>

You must update also the single.php or page.php and put this code so that the sidebar will appear to the page or your single post.

</div>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?> (please add this code to the single.php or page.php)

<?php get_footer(); ?>

After this, don’t forget to save the file in the wordpress directory. Hope this would help for you guys!