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Article Sidebars
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Overview
Article can have Left Sidebar and/or Right Sidebar to display additional content.
The Left Sidebar can contain the following elements:
- Categories Navigation sidebar
- KB Sidebar with custom or KB Widgets
- Table of Contents (TOC)
- Categories List if Categories Focused Layout is active (How to change layout)
The Right Sidebar can display the following elements:
- Categories Navigation sidebar
- Table of Contents (TOC)
- KB Sidebar with custom or KB Widgets
Choose Navigation Sidebar with Wizard
Common Sidebar Questions
Follow the instructions below. Topics: KB widgets, Navigation, Custom HTML
You can control the article sidebars on any article page. Follow the instructions below. Topics: Width, Colors, Features, padding.
To control the width of the whole article including sidebars, read instructions in the link below.
If you need to disable the blog sidebar, follow the instructions below.
How to Enable Sidebars
Step 1 Deactivated Sections
Step 2 Turn on Sidebar
Configure Sidebars
Step 1 Choose the Sidebar
Open your KB Editor when on the article page. Click on the sidebar you wish to configure. The top bar should say "Left Sidebar."
The Style tab provides the option to change the whole sidebar background color.
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Note: Both left and right sidebars have the background color option.
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Step 2 Align Sidebar to the Article Content
Step 3 Sidebar Top Offset
Step 4 Sidebar Width
How to Add Widgets to the Sidebar
Step 1 Activate the Widget Feature
Open your KB Editor on the article page.
- Click on the Sidebar you wish to edit.
- Go to the features tab. At the bottom, set your widgets to a value between 1 and 5.
In this screenshot we have a Custom HTML widget and a Recent Articles widget from our Pro Add-on.
To learn more about that plugin, click here.
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Step 2 Add your own Widgets
To start adding your own widgets to the Article Sidebar:
- In your Admin sidebar select the Appearance Menu.
- Click on Widgets
- Echo KB #1 Articles Sidebar is the sidebar for KB 1. Drop widgets you wish to see in your article.
- This is the custom HTML widget we used to create that "View Add-ons" button.Â
- The Echo KB - Recent Articles widget is available with our pro add-on. Click here to learn more.
- You can drop additional widgets you have in Available Widget list. Simply drag and drop a widget into the sidebar.
How to Disable Sidebars
Step 1 Choose the Sidebar
Step 2 Turn off the Sidebar
How to disable my blog sidebar from my WordPress theme?

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This is the KB Left Sidebar with yellow background color so that you can see it better.
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This is the KB Right Sidebar with yellow background color so that you can see it better.
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This is the Blog sidebar from your theme.
In this example, you can see another sidebar. This sidebar is outputted by your theme.
Two Options for Removing Blog Sidebar:
The first step is to try to switch to the KB Template options. This option allows our KB to take more control over the layout.
Check your themes settings to see how it can turn off the blog on the KB Article Post Type. You need to look for KB articles or post_type called epkb_post_type_1
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