Sidebar for blog, but only for blog?

[Pants Masterson]

Right now, Omega gives me three universal options: no sidebar, left sidebar, or right sidebar.

What I’d love is an option that lets me choose whether or not I want a sidebar on pages.

My ideal circumstance would be to have a site that has:
YES to sidebar on blog;
NO to sidebar on pages.

I’m kind of figuring out how to tackle the actions/hooks to see if I can crack this myself, but so far my attempts have resulted in the right sidebar-per-category appearing or not appearing, but with giant empty spaces where the sidebar should be on the pages.

[han]

If your blog page is not on the front page, you can set the blog page layout differently from the default layout (via customizer)

[Pants Masterson]

Awesome! Thanks, Han. Is there any good place I can look at sample code that will help me understand how to customize via the customizer?

[han]

1. Create a new page for blog (You can name it “Blog”), and set “Layout” to either “Content / Sidebar” or “Sidebar / Content”
2. Go to “Settings > Reading” and set “the static pages” for front page and post page (blog), more info
3. Go to “Appearance > Customize > Layout”, select “Content” for Global Layout

[Pants Masterson]

Thanks, Han! It all works like a charm. I wasn’t understanding how page layouts can be set on a per-page basis.

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