Dynamic custom blog sidebar

The solution decreased diesel dependence by seventy-five percent while delivering granular performance analytics to support ongoing optimization initiatives.

She also used Compose to create a much better mobile experience. Instead of hiding the sidebar or dropping it awkwardly above or below the post, it can slide out from the side using a sticky button.

This Compose design uses a hidden Squarespace page on the website and dynamically pulls in that pages content and adds it to all the blogs on the site so she could she could update the sidebar from a ‘hidden’ page on her website, without code.

The mobile version of the sidebar is available but hidden, and can pop out from the side from a sticky button! She said “I removed my blog’s sidebar plugin earlier this year, and put the sidebar back today using ONLY Compose. It’s not 100% styled the way I’d had it before, but it works well and didn’t use the old plugin code at all!

The mobile version of the sidebar is available but hidden, and can pop out from the side from a sticky button! My previous code plugin didn’t do that; it just hid the sidebar on mobile entirely, or appended it to the top or bottom of the post content, neither of which was ideal.”

See Katelyn’s custom sidebar in action on the Launch the Damn Thing live site.