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The custom sidebar is a useful feature in the Jupiter WordPress theme which allows you to add more sidebars/widget areas into the widgets page. In this article, we’ll explain how to creat a custom sidebar/widget area and assign it to a specific page.
What does it mean to have a sidebar in a theme?
A sidebar is any widgetized area of your theme. Widget areas are places in your theme where users can add their own widgets. You do not need to include a sidebar in your theme, but including a sidebar means users can add content to the widget areas through the Customizer or the Widgets Admin Panel.
Manage and replace sidebars and other widget areas on your site with Custom Sidebars, a flexible widget area manager. Make custom sidebar configurations and be able to choose what widgets display on each page or post of your site. Need to make a widget sticky or fixed?
What can I do with custom sidebars plugin?
Custom Sidebars allows you to display custom widget configurations on any page, post, category, post type, or archive page. “Custom Sidebars will go on my “essential plugins” list from now on. “This plugin does exactly what it says.
Once the module has been added, you will be greeted with the module’s list of options. These options are separated into three main groups: Content, Design and Advanced. The Sidebar Module allows you to insert a sidebar (and all its built in widgets) anywhere on your page. Actually, you can add any widget area as well using the Sidebar Module.
How to add a widget to the sidebar?
To add widget area navigate to Appearance > Customize > Header > Primary Menu > Last Item in Menu and select Widget from the list. 3. Now follow the steps that are mentioned above to use Lightweight Sidebar Manager plugin.
On the desktops, #sidebar.active will mean that the sidebar is hidden and #sidebar only that it’s visible. It will have an opposite behavior on mobiles where #sidebar.active is when the sidebar is visible and #sidebar is hidden. The .active class has a negative margin-left value that equals to the sidebar width.