The Kubrick theme is the default theme for every new Wordpress installation. As simple and common as this theme is, most people stick on with this theme for a couple of reasons, the top 2 being (a) it’s clean and simple (b) it works with all known Wordpress plugins including widgets.
However, there is one major fault of the fault Kubrick theme: the individual “single” pages do not display the sidebar!
Now, I don’t know about you but I wasn’t too happy about the fact that my side menu only appears on the main page of my blog. Why was it designed like this in the first place? Only god (and perhaps Matt) really knows.
The good news is that you can do some quick edits to make sure that the sidebar is displayed on all pages. Here’s the Kubrick structure, divided into widecolumn (main content) and narrowcolumn (left sidebar) :
- widecolum: this format creates a wider content are, centered on the individual blog pages by default.
- narrowcolumn: this format is used in the index page of the Kubrick theme, and is amall enough to include a sidebar on the left.
Now, by default only the main index page has both columns. So here’s the 2-step process to solve this issue:
