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  • Creating Custom Sidebars
  • Deleting Custom Sidebars
  • Adding Widgets to the Sidebars
  • Adding Sidebars to the page.
  • Adding Sidebars to the Post
  1. Theme Options

Sidebars

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Last updated 2 years ago

Sidebars are a great way to add extra content and functionality to your website, without distracting from its core content. We paid particular attention to Sidebars for your most considerable convenience and on multiple previous requests in this theme.

Creating Custom Sidebars

In Theme options, you can create an unlimited number of sidebars by clicking button and they can be used on pages, blog posts, services, events, cases, and portfolio post types.

Let's create sidebars for each custom post type individually:

Deleting Custom Sidebars

By clicking the trash icon with the Delete label you can remove the custom sidebars.

Adding Widgets to the Sidebars

You can add the widgets for these sidebars in the Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets section. There find the Sidebar section, and then give it a click to expand. You should now be able to see all the widgets that make up this particular sidebar:

By clicking Browse All you can open the full list of available widgets that are grouped by categories on the left side of the screen. You should now be able to see all the widgets that make up this particular sidebar.

From here, you can make the following changes:

  • Add a widget. In the Available Widgets section, find the widget that you want to add to the sidebar, and then drag and drop it onto the Sidebar section. Note that wherever you drop the widget is where it’ll appear in the sidebar.

  • Rearrange your widgets. You can change the order these widgets appear in the sidebar, using drag and drop:

  • Change a widget’s title. Click to select the widget’s corresponding section, and edit the title text as required:

  • Delete a widget. Click to expand the widget’s corresponding section, and then give the Remove link a click.

Adding Sidebars to the page.

Select the Sidebar widget from the menu bar on the left-hand side of your screen then drag and drop it in the selected area:

You will get a window with the basic setting options under the Content tab and you need to choose one of the available sidebars:

Adding Sidebars to the Post

Select the Sidebar widget from the menu bar on the left-hand side of your screen then drag and drop it in the selected area:

You will get a window with the basic setting options under the Content tab and you need to choose the Services sidebar:

After adding the content you can publish the post.

The custom sidebars appear in the Dashboard > Appearance > Widgets section and you can to them individually.

In order to previously created sidebars, go to your site and start editing the page with Elementor and choose the Structure while adding a new Section by clicking :

Previously we created the custom Sidebars for custom post types, and let's add them to the posts. We will add the services sidebar to the related post. To do that, go to your site Dashboard > Services and start editing the with Elementor.

Then choose the Structure while adding a new Section by clicking

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add the widgets