Title: Sidebar Challenges
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sidebar Challenges

 *  Resolved [mrpaxson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrpaxson/)
 * (@mrpaxson)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-challenges/)
 * Thank you for developing this great plugin. I am a pro user of MBT. My website
   is [http://middlepathpublishing.com](http://middlepathpublishing.com). I am using
   Elegant Themes’ Divi.
 * I notice that your standard template for MBT has a sidebar. It has been working
   fine on the Book Table and Book pages. They look wonderful. But the sidebar isn’t
   showing up on the Genre, Author (and perhaps Series?) pages. As a result, all
   the items that should be appearing on the sidebar are below the entries.
 * I don’t know what the fix is. I deactivated all of the plugins, and that made
   no difference.
 * So far, your plugin seems to work well with this new theme.
 * Any suggestions?
 * Thank you in anticipation of some brilliant insight.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/mybooktable/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/mybooktable/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Thomas Umstattd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neovita/)
 * (@neovita)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-challenges/#post-4472095)
 * I believe this is an issue with your theme. I will check with our developer, 
   but I believe that for the Genre, Series etc. we use the Archive template instead
   of the single post template. Divi gives you a lot of “pre-made layouts” It looks
   like your site is using a different “pre-made layout” on the authors pages.
 * So you may be able to fix this by fiddling with your theme settings. If that 
   doesn’t fix it post back and we will take a deeper look.
 *  Thread Starter [mrpaxson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrpaxson/)
 * (@mrpaxson)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-challenges/#post-4472116)
 * Hi Thomas,
 * I´ve worked with all the theme settings and the default page is with a sidebar.
   Today I uninstalled MBT, trashed the problem pages. The author the plugin comes
   with displays the same exact problems, so I don’t think it is in the page creation
   process, but most likely a theme issues. However it would be great if you could
   look deeper. A solution would be very much appreciated. I’d really like to showcase
   your plugin. Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [zookatron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zookatron/)
 * (@zookatron)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-challenges/#post-4472158)
 * Hi [@mrpaxson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrpaxson/),
 * Thanks for pointing this out to us, this is indeed a reproducible incompatibility
   with the Elegant Themes Divi theme. It is caused by what appears to be a bug 
   in the theme code that I will notify the theme developers of and will hopefully
   be fixed soon.
 * ~Tim
 *  Thread Starter [mrpaxson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrpaxson/)
 * (@mrpaxson)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-challenges/#post-4472159)
 * Thanks for communicating with Elegant Themes. Divi is new and I’m sure they are
   still debugging it, so hopefully it will work in the future.
 * Meanwhile, the latest update for MBT did something unexpected. Now an apparent
   sidebar shows up on the Author and Genre pages. However it is on the LEFT side
   and it is not populated by the widgets. Those still appear on the bottom of the
   page.
 *  Thread Starter [mrpaxson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrpaxson/)
 * (@mrpaxson)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-challenges/#post-4472188)
 * Elegant Themes helped me resolve the problem by adding these two lines of code
   to the custom CSS in Divi.
 * `.mybooktable #left-area { float: left; width: 700px; }`
    `.mybooktable #sidebar{
   float: right; width: 320px; }`
 * Thanks for the help.

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## Tags

 * [author](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/author/)
 * [genre](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/genre/)
 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)

 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [mrpaxson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrpaxson/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-challenges/#post-4472188)
 * Status: resolved