Events on static page

[jvanderbiest]

Hello,
I’ve been watching https://theeventscalendar.com/the-events-calendar-templates-an-overview-in-three-parts/ Part 1 but I’m not completely sure how to implement this.

What I want to do is show a list (poster format) of upcoming events on my homepage with a sidebar on the right.

When I set my content page (in Settings => Reading) to “Latest Posts” (the non static page) I get the following view that contains my events + blog posts (very nice and acceptable as I won’t post any blog posts). Problem is I can’t get a sidebar to this view 🙁 Just don’t have any ideas…
http://steirk.be/stijn/static_template.jpg

So to have sidebars, I probably need to use a Static page as homepage. I get the sidebar but I don’t get the events anymore. I really don’t know where to start. Should I copy a template as they do in the video? What template do I need to take? What will happen to the pages that use the same template. I probably can fix that by creating a new template name?
http://steirk.be/stijn/content_with_sidebar.jpg

Are there any more n00b tutorials for this?
I’ve been trying to accomplish this task for over 2 days but I find myself in situations where I’m not really sure what I’m doing.

Any help is highly appreciated
Kind Regards,
Jonas

[Chris]

Hi there,
The best solution for your case is to add a call to add the sidebars using the WordPress standard get_sidebar() in your blog page template.

Unfortunately, that location depends highly on your theme. I would recommend contacting your theme author about adding a sidebar to the blog page template. It’s something that he likely has a step-by-step guide for already as its a pretty common templating thing to do, but its specific to each template.

I hope that makes sense and helps 🙂

Let us know,
Chris

[jvanderbiest]

Hi Chris,
Thanks a lot for your follow-up.
That’s indeed the way to go… I’ve got it fixed now!!

I’m glad I did ask it first before I jumped on it! 🙂

Cheers

[Chris]

Great! I’ll mark this as resolved 🙂

-Chris

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