sidebar for "blog" template

[ladybug]

I am using the Enterprise Child Theme. Rather than having the "categories" in the secondary menu, I have a page link in the menu called "Blog" that links to ALL posts. I assigned that page the "blog template".

Now I need to add the category, archive, recent posts, etc. widgets on the sidebar of just the "blog template".

In the  Enterprise Child Theme,  Under appearance > widgets,      there is only the ability to adjust widgets for the home page.

How would I add widgets to only the "blog template" layout?

[Sridhar Katakam]

Instead of setting "Blog" Template to that Page, I think it is better to do it the standard WordPress way, which is to go to Settings -> Reading and set it as Posts page.

Then install a plugin like Widget Logic and write if conditionals so that widgets appear only on the Posts page.

Ex.:

is_home()

Enter that in Widget Logic's field in any widget and that widget will appear only on the Posts page.

is_front_page() is the condition to use for site's homepage (front page).

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[ladybug]

Sridhar,

I am not really understanding what you are saying to do.

I took off the “blog template” layout setting to my page named "Blog" and set the template for that page back to the default.

Then I went to Settings -> Reading like your instructions said, there I am not sure what you mean for me to do.

By default (as already set by the Enterprise Child Theme) the settings were as follows:

For "Front page displays"  the radio button is selected as      "Your latest posts"

I thought perhaps you meant for me to instead select the radio button for   "A static page (select below)"

So I tried doing that.... then for the "select below", for "Posts page:", I selected "Blog".

The result of doing the above was that clicking on the Blog link in the navigation opened a page named "Blog", but now there are no posts there. So I don't think that I accomplished what you meant. wHERE DID i GO WRONG?

Additionally, looking at the Widget Logic plugin, I see that they state :  "PLEASE NOTE The widget logic you introduce is EVAL'd directly. Anyone who has access to edit widget appearance will have the right to add any code, including malicious and possibly destructive functions." ..... NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS WIDGET HAS PROBLEMS.

[ladybug]

Okay, May have taken care of the problem.

I left the setting in Settings -> Reading as it appeared by default in the theme.

I installed "Simple Sidebars" Plugin

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