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How To Get The Sidebar on Pages in WordPress TwentyEleven Theme

I've used WordPress software as a CMS for a bunch of websites, and I'd typically just customize the default theme, which for most of my sites was the TwentyTen theme. When the default theme became TwentyEleven, it threw me for a slight curve when the sidebar was not automatically present on pages. That seemed like an odd change.

At my last job, we simply hard-coded the sidebar and then recopied that code every time we started a new project. Well, I just realized that all of that is totally unnecessary and I really should've looked into the issue further. All you have to do is go to Pages, select all, click edit, and change the template to "sidebar template" as a bulk action. It couldn't be easier. Lesson learned.