WordPress default theme (Kubrick based) does not display sidebar on single post page. However with a minor change in the theme you can make it to display sidebar. This works in the default theme of WordPress 2.0 and 1.5.x.

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Click on Presentation / Theme Editor / Single Post.
Change the second line from:


to

Then add this line :
php get_sidebar(); ?>

just before the last line containing:
php get_footer(); ?>

You are done!

Now you will have a sidebar, identical to the front page, on all your post pages.

Note: This supercedes my earlier post on this sidebar problem, as this solution is without any side-effect, unlike my previous solution.

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Discussion 16 Responses

  1. Commenter How to have sidebar enabled in WordPress 1.5 Kubrick(modified) Post pages -Java and Web Software Blog Says:
    December 26th, 2005 at 11:58 pm

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  2. Commenter kcyap Says:
    January 2nd, 2006 at 9:31 pm

    Hi there, i had just reopen the wordpress 2.0 theme design competition which will start very soon. I hope you could help me to spread the news. Im offering a lot of gadgets as the prizes and i wish will there be a lot of competitors.

    Ive put the entry as a sticky topic on my blog and only will be take down after the competition had been complete. For direct link to my Wordpress 2.0 Theme Design Competition, this is the address

    http://kcyap.com/?p=47

    I hope you could set a trackback to my entry so i know you had help me to blog about this.

    Thanks in advanced.

  3. Commenter Angsuman Chakraborty Says:
    January 3rd, 2006 at 3:33 am

    You got it.
    WordPress 2.0 Theme Competition Announced

  4. Commenter Jason Litka Says:
    November 24th, 2006 at 11:59 am

    You rock! I’ve been trying to figure this out since I started my blog last weekend.

  5. Commenter Mad Kane Says:
    July 19th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

    Thanks so much. You are a life-saver. I have two blogs and have been trying to add the sidebar to my single pages foreover and have been tearing my hair out. Thanks for the wide to narrow fix … just in time before I lost the last of my hair. :)

  6. Commenter Ivan Dulin Says:
    August 7th, 2007 at 1:11 am

    If you want your sidebar with background, as on main page, you also need fix this string in header.php:
    “if ( !$withcomments && !is_single() ) {” - we need “if ( !$withcomments ) {”. Enjoy!

  7. Commenter Kathiroly Raj Says:
    August 12th, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    Hi. Really thank you so much for this. I have been looking for this for a long time. Thanks a zillion. :)

  8. Commenter Jao Moragoat in Thailand Says:
    August 21st, 2007 at 8:51 am

    Much gratitude for the quick and simple fix. BTW, for wordpress 2.2, the file to modify is single.php.

    Cheers!

  9. Commenter meraTechExplorer Says:
    January 29th, 2008 at 2:16 am

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  10. Commenter Shaun Says:
    March 8th, 2008 at 10:57 am

    Thanks! This was very useful.

  11. Commenter S.P. Gass Says:
    March 21st, 2008 at 9:35 pm

    Thanks for the simple, effective solution! In addition to adding the sidebar, your solution also appears to have corrected a title centering issue I was having with long titled posts under the default style. Thanks again!!

  12. Commenter Ben Hinton Says:
    April 8th, 2008 at 2:19 am

    Thanks for posting this useful tip. This works for me using WordPress 2.5.

    Cheers!

    Ben

  13. Commenter SigePa Says:
    April 12th, 2008 at 10:10 am

    Thank you. I was completely lost on this till I found your cure for the missing sidebar.

  14. Commenter John Says:
    May 7th, 2008 at 6:39 am

    Thanks this realy helped.

  15. Commenter JPW Says:
    January 30th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    I don’t see any code, it’s blank for me.

  16. Commenter Ruben Laguna Says:
    March 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    The PHP code doesn’t show up in your post as it’s not enclosed by tags. I had to go to the source code of the webpage to find out what code I was supposed to add. Please edit this post and surround the php code with code tags!!