Thanks Don, I have sent you an email, but thought I'd also include my response here as well. I have worked out how to amend the default sidebar, so that it does everything I want, except for the including the 'changes' plugin syntax, so it may not make sense to create a new page for the sidebar. But if I don't do this, I need to find a way of including the 'changes' plugin syntax, either by creating a text page and including it in the code for the sidebar in main.php, or directly including the syntax in main.php. If you still think it's best to create a separate page for the sidebar, then I will need to work out how to include the other content that I currently have in my sidebar with the minima theme, i.e. index, sitemap, recent changes, search, login info. Nick