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The answer turns out to be to add a sidebar, which is a separate element. First, you have to use the Berlin theme, not the default. This theme adds a line to system/layouts/default.html: <div...
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#1: Initial revision
by
Monica Cellio
·
2021-09-27T02:49:03Z (about 3 years ago)
The answer turns out to be to add a sidebar, which is a separate element. First, you have to use the Berlin theme, not the default. This theme adds a line to `system/layouts/default.html`:
<div class="<?php echo "content".($this->yellow->page->isPage("sidebar") ? " with-sidebar" : "") ?>">
For some reason the blog templates don't get updated when you switch to this theme, so edit that line into `blog.html` and `blogpages.html`.
Next, you need to create the actual sidebar page. In the `shared` content folder, add `sidebar.md` as in the following example:
---
Title: Sidebar
Status: shared
BlogLocation: /blog/
BlogNewLocation: /blog/@year/@month
---
Tags
[blogtags /blog/ 10]
Archive
[blogarchive /blog/ 50]
In `blogtags` and `blogarchive`, the last argument is the number of entries to show. I haven't yet figured out how to show all tags, or all archive months, on one page.
These changes add the sidebar to all pages on the web site. Mine is, first and foremost, a blog, but if you have other types of content in their own sections, you might not want your blog archives to show up in, say, your portfolio. I suspect that deleting that line from `default.html`, so only the blog templates have it, would accomplish that, but I haven't tried it.