Cornerstone is not working at all

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#1

Hello I have installed the X theme basic, and I have been struggling to add a custom sidebar to my blog.

Ideally, I would want my side bar to look like this,

I have been able to add the custom sidebar, but am struggling to do it the way he is doing it. It seems like he is able to add sections to the sidebar in cornerstone, and I cant seem to figure how he is doing that.

Please help, thank you very much.

#2

Sorry, that was not the title, cornerstone is working fine, but I am trying to add sections to the sidebar

#3

Hi Eric,

Thank you for writing in, that site’s sidebar is an actual sidebar, not something that is built-in Cornerstone.

To populate your sidebar with Widgets, please navigate to Appearance > Widgets and see the Main Sidebar on the right-side.

Fill that up with available widgets that you need from the left-side.



Those ads and images that you see on the sample site sidebar are Text Widgets where the ads code and images code are pasted.

Hope that shed some lights,
Cheers!

#4

Hi friench,

Thank you very much for the prompt response. However, I am familiar with the suggestion you showed me but I am skeptical that is the case. The sidebar I’ve added looks very unprofessional compared to his, and they aren’t in blocks like the posts are.

When you look at his side bar, everything is in blocks, just as each of his posts are. In fact, I can create the exact the search bar he has in his side bar by adding the search element into columns, the only exception is that he seems to be able to add it to his sidebar, and I cant.

I’m not sure if i’m explaining well enough, but I believe he is able to add sections to his sidebar, and then add elements into them in cornerstone.

Thank you very much, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Eric

#5

Hi Eric,

Thank you for the clarification, he seems to be using a 3rd party widgets that has the white box feel in it.

But we can apply that same feel to your widgets, by adding the following custom CSS to Theme Options > CSS

.x-sidebar .widget {
    padding: 1.5em;
    background-color: #fff;
    box-shadow: 0 0.15em 0.35em 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.135);
}

Hope it helps,
Cheers!

#6

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