This is a known issue and will be taken care of soon, assuming you are using the “Twenty Eleven” theme: see this link. The bundled Twenty Eleven theme has some styling issues for pages with sidebars (See Trac ticket #36510)
If you only need the title you can request it outside the loop easily. Try and call the_title() in your header. It should work But you have to be aware that if you don’t put a condition, each page of your website will display its title in the header section. EDIT: the function to call … Read more
It depends on where you want to show the widget. Let’s start with the widget area (sidebar) registration: add_action( ‘wp_loaded’, ‘wpse_76959_register_widget_area’ ); function wpse_76959_register_widget_area() { register_sidebar( array ( ‘name’ => __( ‘Widgets on page Sample Page’, ‘theme_textdomain’ ), ‘description’ => __( ‘Will be used on a page with a slug “sample-page” only.’, ‘theme_textdomain’ ), ‘id’ … Read more
Another solution is to add the columns setting back to the settings. function wpse126301_dashboard_columns() { add_screen_option( ‘layout_columns’, array( ‘max’ => 2, ‘default’ => 1 ) ); } add_action( ‘admin_head-index.php’, ‘wpse126301_dashboard_columns’ ); There is a related Trac ticket: #26354