add a sidebar to the Category archive pages in wordpress

Question

Is it possible to add a sidebar to the Category, Tag and search results archive pages?

Thanks!

Answer 1

The Template Hierarchy specifies that WordPress will use the first Template file it finds in your current Theme's directory from the following list:

For Category:-

 1. category-slug.php
 2. category-ID.php
 3. category.php
 4. archive.php
 5. index.php

For Tag:-

1. tag-slug.php
2. tag-id.php
3. tag.php
4. archive.php
5. index.php

If you don't have one, use archive.php , and so on.

For Search Result:-

 1. search.php

This is not a Search Page, it is merely a template that displays the search results.

And add use this below code for sidebar. put below code in file where you want to display sidebar. This is default sidebar

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>