Hi Raymond,
I apologise, but I am not quite sure what you’re referring to. As Templates are part of the theme itself. The Sidebar Template you selected is a template for the BB theme.
Nearly all WordPress theme includes templates that layout that page in a particular way such as a Sidebar on a page. We also include a “No Header or Footer” template which removes the header/footer from the page. The theme doesn’t depend on a template, but simply adds to the themes functionality.
Does using the sidebar template preclude me from making other templates that also need the sidebar? My site vision was that the sidebar would always be present, and that I would have several types of templates for pages, ranging from info pages to galleries, to forms, all with the same navigation menu on the side.
If I understand you correctly, you want to use the same Sidebar across several pages with the same widgets i.e. navigation menu?
If my assumption is correct, then all you would need to do is create a page, set the template to Sidebar and add your widgets to the sidebar via Appearance > Widgets.
Unfortunately, there is no option to remove the nav, but keep the header. Therefore, to do this would require custom CSS, which will hide the menu.
.fl-page-nav {
display: none;
visibility: hidden;
}
Thanks,
Danny