Title: Problem adding a sidebar to single post view
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem adding a sidebar to single post view

 *  Resolved [amber.karnes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amberkarnes/)
 * (@amberkarnes)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-sidebar-to-single-post-view/)
 * I am trying to add a sidebar to the single post (single.php) in my theme editor.
   This is the current code for single.php
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       		<div id="PageBody">
   
       		<div id="Content">
   
       	<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       		<div class="navigation">
       			<div class="alignleft"><?php previous_post_link('&laquo; %link') ?></div>
       			<div class="alignright"><?php next_post_link('%link &raquo;') ?></div>
       		</div>
   
       		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       			<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
   
       			<div class="entry">
       				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>
   
       				<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
       				<?php the_tags( '<p>Tags: ', ', ', '</p>'); ?>
   
       				<p class="postmetadata alt">
       					<small>
       						This entry was posted
       						<?php /* This is commented, because it requires a little adjusting sometimes.
       							You'll need to download this plugin, and follow the instructions:
       							http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2004/08/17/time-since-plugin/ */
       							/* $entry_datetime = abs(strtotime($post->post_date) - (60*120)); echo time_since($entry_datetime); echo ' ago'; */ ?>
       						on <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?> at <?php the_time() ?>
       						and is filed under <?php the_category(', ') ?>.
       						You can follow any responses to this entry through the <?php post_comments_feed_link('RSS 2.0'); ?> feed.
   
       						<?php if (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
       							// Both Comments and Pings are open ?>
       							You can <a href="#respond">leave a response</a>, or <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?>" rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.
   
       						<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && ('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
       							// Only Pings are Open ?>
       							Responses are currently closed, but you can <a href="<?php trackback_url(); ?> " rel="trackback">trackback</a> from your own site.
   
       						<?php } elseif (('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
       							// Comments are open, Pings are not ?>
       							You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
   
       						<?php } elseif (!('open' == $post-> comment_status) && !('open' == $post->ping_status)) {
       							// Neither Comments, nor Pings are open ?>
       							Both comments and pings are currently closed.
   
       						<?php } edit_post_link('Edit this entry','','.'); ?>
   
       					</small>
       				</p>
   
       			</div>
       		</div>
   
       </div>
       	<?php comments_template(); ?>
   
       	<?php endwhile; else: ?>
   
       		<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
   
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       	</div><!-- end "PageBody" div -->
   
       	</div><!-- end "PageContainer" div -->
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * It is displaying the sidebar next to the comments, not at the top of the page.
   Example: [http://myaimistrue.com/2008/08/episode-5-oh-baby/](http://myaimistrue.com/2008/08/episode-5-oh-baby/)
 * The archive page is displaying it the way I want it to. Code:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
   
       		<div id="PageBody">
   
       		<div id="Content">
   
       		<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
        	  <?php $post = $posts[0]; // Hack. Set $post so that the_date() works. ?>
        	  <?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
       		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for the ‘<?php single_cat_title(); ?>’ Category</h2>
        	  <?php /* If this is a tag archive */ } elseif( is_tag() ) { ?>
       		<h2 class="pagetitle">Posts Tagged ‘<?php single_tag_title(); ?>’</h2>
        	  <?php /* If this is a daily archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
       		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('F jS, Y'); ?></h2>
        	  <?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
       		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?></h2>
        	  <?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
       		<h2 class="pagetitle">Archive for <?php the_time('Y'); ?></h2>
       	  <?php /* If this is an author archive */ } elseif (is_author()) { ?>
       		<h2 class="pagetitle">Author Archive</h2>
        	  <?php /* If this is a paged archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>
       		<h2 class="pagetitle">Blog Archives</h2>
        	  <?php } ?>
   
       		<div class="navigation">
       			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
       			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
       		</div>
   
       		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
       		<div class="post">
       				<h3 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
       				<small><?php the_time('l, F jS, Y') ?></small>
   
       				<div class="entry">
       					<?php the_content() ?>
       				</div>
   
       				<p class="postmetadata"><?php the_tags('Tags: ', ', ', '<br />'); ?> Posted in <?php the_category(', ') ?> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?>  <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p>
   
       			</div>
   
       		<?php endwhile; ?>
   
       		<div class="navigation">
       			<div class="alignleft"><?php next_posts_link('&laquo; Older Entries') ?></div>
       			<div class="alignright"><?php previous_posts_link('Newer Entries &raquo;') ?></div>
       		</div>
   
       	<?php else : ?>
   
       		<h2 class="center">Not Found</h2>
       		<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
   
       	<?php endif; ?>
   
       	</div>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       		</div><!-- end "PageBody" div -->
   
       	</div><!-- end "PageContainer" div -->
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * I am not used to working in PHP, I’m a recent MovableType convert. Can anyone
   help me? The theme is [pl00 ](http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/pl00)if that
   matters.

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 *  [equaldesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/equaldesign/)
 * (@equaldesign)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-sidebar-to-single-post-view/#post-854990)
 * A quick look at the code for your single.php file tells me that you have 4 opening
   <div> and 5 closing </div>. These should be equal:
 * Opening <div> are:
 *     ```
       <div id="PageBody">
       <div id="Content">
       <div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
       <div class="entry">
       ```
   
 * Then you have five closing. Two at the bottom that have end “pagebody” and end“
   page container”on them and then three underneath all the else if stuff.
 * That will need correcting.
 *  Thread Starter [amber.karnes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amberkarnes/)
 * (@amberkarnes)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-sidebar-to-single-post-view/#post-854995)
 * Edited to say: I fixed it!
 * It seemed to be the comments template was in the wrong place. I edited the code
   to this and it worked. Thank you for your help!
 *     ```
       </div><!-- end "post" div -->
       		</div><!-- end "entry" div -->
       <?php comments_template(); ?>
       </div><!-- end "Content" div -->
   
       	<?php endwhile; else: ?>
   
       		<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>
   
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
   
       	</div><!-- end "PageBody" div -->
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [amber.karnes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amberkarnes/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-adding-a-sidebar-to-single-post-view/#post-854995)
 * Status: resolved

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