Blog · Single post with sidebar

A single post template with a sidebar: categories, title, excerpt, author, date and reading time over the featured photo; the article with share buttons, tags, author box, previous and next posts and comments; beside it a subscribe box, social links, the latest posts and a sticky table of contents; related articles below.

Full-page views: desktop, phone and dark mode

At 1440px wide.

At 390px wide.

With your site in dark mode.

See it live: Blog · Single post with sidebar on fancybricks.co — the live preview, and the button that copies it.

In the builder

Preview on the front end. Scripts don't run inside the builder, so here you only see the layout: the contents list shows open in the sidebar; folding it into a drop-down from the tablet breakpoint down works on the front end. Save and open the page to see the full result.

Structure

This is what the Bricks Structure panel shows after you paste the template. Component instances say which component they are.

Single post with sidebar
  Blog · Post
    Container
      Reading progress
      Header
        Intro   (FBK Intro)
        Meta
          Meta · Avatar
          Meta · Byline
            Meta · Author
            Meta · Dates
              Meta · Date
              Meta · Reading time
      Featured photo
      Post
        Article
          Content
          Share   (FBK Share)
          Tags
            Tags · Label
            Tags · List
              Tag
                Tag · Name
          Author
            Author · Photo
            Author · Body
              Author · Label
              Author · Name
              Author · Bio
          Previous and next
          Comments
        Contents · Column
          Contents · Box
            Contents · Head
              Contents · Label
              Contents · Chevron
            Contents
          Contents · Script
        Sidebar
          Sidebar · Subscribe
            Sidebar · Subscribe title
            Sidebar · Subscribe text
            Sidebar · Subscribe form
          Sidebar · Follow us
            Sidebar · Follow us title
            Social   (FBK Social)
          Sidebar · Latest posts
            Sidebar · Latest posts title
            Latest · Posts
              Latest · Loop
                Post card · Latest   (FBK Post card)
  Blog · Related articles
    Container
      Related · Intro   (FBK Intro)
      Related · Posts
        Related · Loop
          Post card   (FBK Post card)

The template also pastes a dashed note above the section, with the short version of this page. It only shows inside the builder, never on the published page — see Builder notes.

How to adjust

Every step is the same move: pick the element in the Structure panel, change its Properties.

Where are those panels?

How to adjust a template shows every one of them in a screenshot of the real builder: the Structure and Properties panels, the classes on an element, a component's style families and the field where a CSS variable goes.

The classes this element carries, in the Bricks panel.

This template's own component, with its Style group open.

1. Paste the template in Bricks first — see Copy and paste.
2. Select Intro, Related · Intro (FBK Intro) › Properties: Eyebrow, Hide eyebrow, Title, Title level, Lead, Hide lead · Style group: Eyebrow style, Highlight, Title size, Accent line · Layout group: Alignment, Layout, Background, Spacing · Motion group: Reveal in slider.
3. Select Share (FBK Share) › Properties: Label, Hide label · Networks group: Facebook, X, LinkedIn, WhatsApp, Telegram, Pinterest, Bluesky, Email, Open in a new tab · Style group: Look, Tone, Shape, Size, Hover effect, Network colors, Show network names, Layout, Background.
4. Select Social (FBK Social) › Properties: Networks group: Facebook link, Instagram link, X link, LinkedIn link, YouTube link, TikTok link, Hide Facebook, Hide Instagram, Hide X, Hide LinkedIn, Hide YouTube, Hide TikTok · Style group: Look, Tone, Shape, Size, Show names, Hover effect, Background.
5. Select Post card · Latest, Post card (FBK Post card) › Properties: Read more text · Show group: Excerpt length, Hide excerpt, Hide Read more, Hide author, Hide photo, Author and date, Hide reading time, Hide comment count, Category, Date · Style group: Look, Tone, Shape, Padding, Title size · Layout group: Layout, Photo position, Photo shape, Title level, HTML tag · Motion group: Photo hover, Card hover.
6. Select Contents › Content › Content selector and Headings.
7. Select Sidebar · Subscribe form › Content › Fields (add, remove, required), Submit button and Actions (Email: recipient and subject; success message).
8. Select Tag (query loop) › Query: taxonomy, number of terms and order.
9. Select Latest · Loop, Related · Loop (query loop) › Query: post type, number of posts, order and filters.
10. Spacing, sizes, color and timing with no property of their own: the CSS variables below.

CSS variables

These are the only values in the template meant to be changed by hand. Copy the block, paste it, edit the numbers.

The Custom CSS field of this template's own element, with one of its variables as a real example.

/* «Post» · class .fbk-singleside */
.fbk-singleside {
  /* Width of the sidebar */
  --fbk-t-side: 18em;
}

Paste the block in the element's Style → CSS field (the selector is already in it), or set the same variables on the class itself to change every copy at once. The values are your framework's variables, so they follow your site: Choosing a framework.

Requirements

• Code execution. Needs "Execute code" enabled for the role in Bricks → Settings → Custom code, or the JS block shows as plain text instead of running.

What each requirement is, and how to set it up once for the whole site: Requirements.

Finish by hand

• Use it as a Bricks template of type Single and give it a condition (Template settings > Conditions, e.g. Post type: Posts). To see real posts while editing, set Populate content to a post. It is the sister of Blog · Single post (same pieces and classes fbk-single__*), with a sidebar.
• Everything is dynamic data: the title, excerpt, categories, author (name, avatar and bio from the user profile), date, featured photo and the post content. Reading time and the reading progress bar are Bricks elements; they work out the time and the progress from the post content on the page.
• Sidebar: on the start side on desktops (--fbk-t-side on .fbk-singleside is its width); the contents sit at the top of the sidebar and stay in view while reading; the boxes close the sidebar, beside the end of the article. From the tablet breakpoint down the contents become a closed drop-down On this page above the text (a details element; the short script in Contents · Script keeps it open on desktops) and the sidebar moves after the article. Placement: CSS of .fbk-singleside.
• Latest posts: the query loop on Latest · Loop shows the four newest posts without the current one; Post card · Latest is FBK Post card with Layout Mini (a square photo, the date and a title of two lines at most, cut with …).
• The form is the Bricks Form element in the Fancy Bricks house style (class fbk-form: boxed fields with the label above, primary submit with the Sweep hover): set its fields, actions and messages in the Form element. While a field has focus the Sidebar · Subscribe card rises a little and casts a shadow (class fbk-focus-lift on it); remove the class for a still form. Other looks: add fbk-form--line (underline) or fbk-form--float (floating label). Connect it to your list with the form's Mailchimp or Sendgrid action (it emails you each address until then).
• Comments: the Bricks Post comments element at the end of the article, with the Fancy Bricks form fields (classes fbk-form and fbk-ui) and the list styled in .fbk-single__comments. Delete it if your site has comments closed. Its submit button is WordPress' own, so it has the primary colors without the Sweep hover.
• Previous and next: the photo zoom on hover is the class fbk-single__nav--zoom (remove it for still cards). Related articles: the query loop on Related · Loop shows three posts of the same category, without the current one.
• Posts: the query loop is on the li around Post card (Query: posts). Change the number, order or category there. Each post needs a featured image (cards without one show no photo). Card options are on Post card: what to show (category, date, author, excerpt), look, layout, photo shape and hover. The line hover is the class fbk-post--line and the photo zoom fbk-post--zoom (both through the Card hover and Photo hover options).

On phones

The template is designed desktop first, the Bricks default, and only changes at the two widths the library uses:

• 991px and below — .fbk-single__aside, .fbk-single__tocbox, .fbk-single__tochead (+1 more), .fbk-intro.
• 767px and below — .fbk-single__nav, .fbk-single__photo, .fbk-section, .fbk-share.

Those changes live in Bricks' own breakpoint fields, so you edit them where you always do: pick the breakpoint in the toolbar and the same fields follow.

Careful with the classes shared by the whole library (fbk-section, fbk-intro, the component classes): a change there shows up in every template that uses them.

If your site's breakpoints are set up mobile first, copy the mobile-first variant of the template instead — see Copy and paste.

Accessibility

In this template, keyboard focus is visible on every interactive piece; movement is cut back when the visitor's system asks for less motion; the state screen readers need is already set (aria-hidden, aria-label).

What is checked on every template, and what depends on your own palette: Accessibility.

Dark mode

With your site in dark mode this section turns dark too — the class fbk-section--auto-dark on the section does it. Remove the class to keep it light.

Its background is a modifier on the section, so you can swap it for any of the ones the template is checked with: fbk-section--light, fbk-section--soft, fbk-section--dark.

How the library follows your site's color scheme: Dark mode and preview.

Replaces

• 03 - Single Blog from Fancy Bricks 2.0

What happened to the old libraries, and what to do with pages already built with them: Migrating from 1.0/2.0.