When there are several ways to style a thing

[Laura]

Laura

February 10, 2014 at 9:35 am

That’s when I get anxious. Here’s an example about sidebar:
Thanks for your very good tip/warning:
at Settings/Reading/FrontPageDisplay: Leave Posts page option Unselected because if you select it you’ll get the Primary Sidebar. (which I don’t want)
But also there is:
Appearance/Customize/StaticFrontPage. I presume I’ll want to leave that Post page unselected also.
And there is ThemeOptions/BlogOptions/BlogPostDefaults.
I want to have a front page for my blog that has all the posts in that lovely infinite scroll, but No Sidebar. But on the subsequent clicks or possible views (More, Categories, Monthly Archives) I do want the sidebar.
So at ThemeOptions/BlogOptions/BlogPostDefaults/BlogPostSidebarDefault — I choose No.
But I read in that name there, ‘blogpost’ so not sure, because I consider my selection to do with the Archive of all, my blog entry page, which is not my home page or my front page. Am I aiming for something not possible?
And below, BlogCategory/ArchiveDefaults I choose With Sidebar graphic. And I guess the Primary Sidebar is the one to choose. You don’t get to create other Sidebars, other than HomeWidgetArea. (He’ll be handy for putting a Log-out widget.)

I’m still confused about which template gets called: which Dashbd/Page/Page Attribute Template matches up with which php template residing in the directory folder(s). If I knew what to look for, or where to look when I use Firebug. I’ve read about the template hierarchy, but I just don’t see template calls… Still learning.

I see something today I never noticed before: In Appearance/Editor on the right side above all the templates listed there, there’s a pulldown menu to choose which theme you want to edit. The provides a nice bath for copy&paste from the Virtue theme to the Child theme. I’ll work with that today, see if I mess things up!