Adding Sidebar to Categories page

You should probably open a support ticket with Zemez, the developer of your theme. There may be a theme option or a template that you can select that we can’t see because it’s a commercial theme that we don’t have access to.

That being said, if you look at the WordPress Template Hierarchy for Category, you’ll see that if a category.php file exists, it will use that. Otherwise, if an archive.php file exists, it will use that. Otherwise, it will default to index.php, which is the template used to display the blog listing.

So what I would do is go into an FTP client like FileZilla, or your host’s cPanel/File manager, and look for a file called category.php in your theme folder (/wp-content/themes/johnnygo). If it’s there, try renaming it to something like category_php.bak (don’t delete the file in case you want to go back to using it). Then, if you also see a file called archive.php, rename that one as well. Now your category pages should match what your blog page looks like (although your search results will also have a sidebar).

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by CrouchingBruin.