{"id":2301,"date":"2026-10-20T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/sidebar-not-showing-on-details-page\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T07:39:39","slug":"sidebar-not-showing-on-details-page","status":"publish","type":"gd_place","link":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/troubleshooting\/sidebar-not-showing-on-details-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is the sidebar not showing on the listing details page?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GeoDirectory shows each listing inside the page you set as the Details page template, and your theme decides that page&#8217;s layout. If the page uses a template without a sidebar, your listings will not have one either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go to GeoDirectory &gt; Settings &gt; General &gt; Pages and edit the Details Page.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the page settings, pick a template that has a sidebar. Many themes also have their own sidebar or layout option in the page editor; set that too.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Update the page and view a listing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the listing still uses the wrong layout, go to GeoDirectory &gt; Settings &gt; Design &gt; Details and choose a template in Page template file override. The same option for category and search pages is under Design &gt; Archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What appears in the sidebar<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sidebar is your theme&#8217;s widget area, so add GeoDirectory widgets to it in Appearance &gt; Widgets, for example GD &gt; Map or GD &gt; Output Location to show selected listing fields. Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/core-widgets\/widget-show-hide-options\/\">widget show and hide options<\/a> to choose which pages each widget appears on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Building the sidebar into the template instead<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also skip the theme sidebar: give the Details page a full-width template and build two columns inside it with a Columns block or your page builder. Put GD &gt; Single Tabs in the main column and the GeoDirectory elements you want in the side column. To show the listing description in a builder, use GD &gt; Post Content, which outputs <code>post_content<\/code> by default. See <a href=\"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/article\/getting-started\/using-a-builder-with-geodirectory\/\">Using a Builder with GeoDirectory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GeoDirectory shows each listing inside the page you set as the Details page template, and your theme decides that page&#8217;s layout. If the page uses a template without a sidebar, your listings will not have one either. If the listing still uses the wrong layout, go to GeoDirectory &gt; Settings &gt; Design &gt; Details and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"article\/tags":[],"article\/categories":[211,437],"class_list":["post-2301","gd_place","type-gd_place","status-publish","hentry","gd_placecategory-tips-tricks-more","gd_placecategory-troubleshooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/gd_place"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2301\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"gd_place_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/tags?post=2301"},{"taxonomy":"gd_placecategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpgeodirectory.com\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/categories?post=2301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}