Sidebars are areas, across the theme, where you can add widgets.
Theme Sidebars
The theme provides a predefined set of sidebars to use on different types of pages. Additionally, the theme adds extra sidebars as a part of plugin integrations:
- Primary – the base sidebar, the other sidebars use that one when are empty
- Secondary – the second sidebar used on pages with two sidebars (not home and archive)
- Home – used on the homepage
- Home 2nd – the second sidebar on the homepage with two sidebars
- Single Post – used on a single post
- Post Archives – used on the archive pages (tags, categories)
- Posts Archives 2nd – the second sidebar on the archive pages with two sidebars
- Pages – used on a single page
- Footer 1 – used on the footer, inside the first column
- Footer 2 – used on the footer, inside the second column
- Footer 3 – used on the footer, inside the third column
- Footer 4 – used on the footer, inside the fourth column
- bbPress – used on bbPress related pages. Available only if the bbPress plugin is active
- BuddyPress – the base sidebar for BuddyPress pages. Other BuddyPress sidebars (below) use that one when they are empty. Available only if the BuddyPress plugin is active
- BuddyPress Members – used on BuddyPress members page
- BuddyPress Single Member – used on BuddyPress single user profile pages
- BuddyPress Single Member Home – used on BuddyPress single user profile homepage
- BuddyPress Groups – used on BuddyPress groups page
- BuddyPress Single Group – used on BuddyPress single group pages
- WooCommerce – the base sidebar for WooCommerce pages. Other WooCommerce sidebars (below) use that one when they are empty. Available only if the WooCommerce plugin is active
- WooCommerce Single Product – used on WooCommerce single product page
- WPBakery Page Builder Home Static – used on a static homepage built on the WPBakery Page Builder plugin. Available only if the WPBakery plugin is active
Add Widgets To Sidebars
You can configure your sidebars on the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets page. Just find a widget, click it and select a sidebar you want to place it into.
Custom Sidebars
You can override a sidebar for a single post, category, or tag. To do so, please do as follows:
- Go to the WP Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets page
- Use the Add a new sidebar form (screen) to create a custom sidebar
- Open edition screen of your post/category/tag
- Find the Sidebar field
- Select the custom sidebar. The sidebar will be used only for that particular post/category/tag
Conditional Sidebars
If you need more complex logic to display your custom sidebar. Let say you want a sidebar to be loaded just on a specific category and only for mobile devices (screen), we recommend the Custom Sidebars plugin. It’s easy to use, highly trusted and popular plugin. For a quick start, please watch this video guide.