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To create a sidebar with the new way WordPress is setup, first go to the Editor page:

Appearance > Editor > Patterns > then on the left sidebar, scroll all the way down until you see “Manage All Template Parts” then > Sidebar

Once you’re on the Sidebar page, click the Pencil (edit) or click inside the page to pull up the editor for the sidebar.

There are other ways of getting to this page, like using the search field in the editor….but you can use whichever one works best for you.

Now you can add in your content/blocks/patterns inside the sidebar. Everything you add here will show up on the Templates/Pages that use this Sidebar area.

Here’s how to add the sidebar to a specific page –

When editing a regular page, Make sure the Sidebar Panel on the right is open.

Then click the “Page” tab.

Then you can select the Template that you want to use. (Choose one with the sidebar in the title)

Once you do that, any page that you use this Template (with a sidebar) will show that Sidebar content that you added earlier.

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There’s also another way which is to edit the Post template page directly which will show the sidebar for all Single Post pages without having to choose a Template….but that would probably require a little bit more effort at first depending on how you want to handle it.

You would basically edit the Single Posts tempalte in the editor, and add/move blocks around so the “Sidebar” Template “Part” is included directly in the Post Template at all times. So once you add this on the Template anytime you create a post it will show the sidebar and whatever content you added by default. If you did it this way (which is a little harder at first), that would mean you wouldn’t need to choose a sidebar template every time you make a Post.

I have it setup the first way I mentioned so I can choose which posts have sidebars and which don’t.