Sidebar

Pages with Settings → Show sidebar checked will display a sidebar. If this page is an action page, the sidebar will contain the action form. Else it will contain the default sidebar.

Signup Form

If your site has a Pages → Defaults → Primary signup page assigned, the sidebar will include a signup form.

  • The sidebar signup form’s headline will populate from the Site settings → Headline field, unless that field is blank. In that case, it will be populated by your site’s primary signup page’s Settings → Headline field.
  • The sidebar signup form’s subheadline will populate from the Site settings → Subheadline field, unless that field is blank. In that case, it will be populated by your site’s primary signup page’s Settings → Social media → Excerpt for Facebook, search engines field.

Only read this if you're wondering why a page has a big empty space where the sidebar should be (the vast majority of people should ignore this):

If your site does not have a primary signup page, the sidebar signup form will not appear and will be replaced by a bigger Facebook or Twitter widget, assuming your nation is connected to Facebook or Twitter. If your site

  • is not connected to Facebook or Twitter and
  • doesn't have a primary signup page and
  • the Supporter nav → Reorder links is empty and
  • the page is not tagged layout sibling menu

there will simply be a big white space as your sidebar when a user is not logged in. In this case, it’s best to uncheck that page’s Settings → Show sidebar checkbox.

Supporter Nav (a.k.a. Sidebar Nav)

  • By checking a page's Settings → Include in supporter nav, you are including that page in a sidebar button menu.
  • You can find all these pages and reorder them in Supporter nav → Reorder links.

NOTE: The Supporter nav → Buttons don't have anything to do with this sidebar menu.

NOTE: This will be overridden by the normal Sibling Menu (below).

Sibling Menu

To display a sidebar menu of all a page's published siblings (which simply means they are subpages of the same parent page), add layout sibling menu to the Settings → Tags to the parent page.

NOTE: This will override the normal Supporter nav.

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