Custom blocks from the Seventy theme.

The Seventy theme also includes several blocks for displaying event content in the category “Seventy Events,” but these blocks only render within the context of an event page or query loop. See the Events User Guide for more information.

Page Header

The Page Header block appears at the top of every template (except the “no title” and “blank” templates). It will automatically show the correct headline for the page, based on what content is being displayed. If an excerpt has been created for the post, it will display in the Page Header. The Page Header block directory in your theme contains a detailed README file for anyone who may administrate the site in the future.

Sidebar Navigation

Pages on this site can show a navigation sidebar alongside their content: a list of links to nearby pages in the same section, with a link back up to the top of that section. It’s built automatically from how your Pages are organized, using the Parent Page setting you already use under Page Attributes. There’s nothing extra to set up.

Most of the time you won’t need to touch this directly. Set a page’s Parent Page the way you normally would, and the sidebar navigation updates on its own.

How Sidebar Nav Contents are Determined

The sidebar always starts with a link to the top of the current page’s section — for example, “Get Informed” or “Take Action.” From there, it shows a single link down through each level between that top section and the page you’re viewing, and then, at the page you’re actually on, it lists every page at that same level (its “siblings”), with the page you’re on highlighted so visitors know where they are.

If the page you’re on has its own sub-pages, those are listed right underneath it too.

For example, if you’re viewing a page called “Local Government STAR Cards,” nested a few levels under “Get Informed,” the sidebar might show:

• Get Informed (link to the top of the section)
  • WeVote Next (a level in between — just a link, not expanded)
    • Democracy For Kids (the page you’re on’s parent — expanded)
      • Civic Holidays
      • Literature-based Mock Trials
      • Local Government STAR Cards (the page you’re on, highlighted)
      • Reading List
      • STAR Cards

Only the path leading to the page you’re on gets expanded like this — the sidebar doesn’t try to show every page in the section at once, just the ones relevant to where a visitor currently is.

If the page you’re viewing is itself a top-level section page (like “Get Informed”), there’s no trail or sibling list above it — the sidebar just shows that page as the top link, with its own sub-pages listed underneath.

Pages are listed in the same order as everywhere else on the site — whatever Order you’ve set under Page Attributes, or alphabetically if no order has been set.

Hiding a Page from the Sidebar Navigation

If you’d like a page to stay out of the sidebar navigation — for instance, a page that’s only ever meant to be reached by a direct link, not browsed to — you can hide it:

1. Open the page for editing.
2. In the Settings sidebar (the panel on the right), make sure you’re on the Page tab.
3. Find the Sidebar Navigation panel and turn on Hide this page from the sidebar navigation.

Hiding a page also hides any of its own sub-pages from the sidebar — if you hide a page that has children, none of them will show up either. This only affects the sidebar navigation itself; the page is still reachable by direct link, still shows up in search, and isn’t affected anywhere else on the site.

Where It Appears

The sidebar navigation only shows up on Pages using a template with a sidebar — the Page template and Page with Alternate Page Header template (set under Page Attributes → Template). Landing-page templates and any “No Sidebar” template don’t have a sidebar at all, so this won’t appear there regardless of how the page is nested.