Right VS. Left Sidebar
Sidebar is a theme feature introduced with WP Version 2.2. It’s basically a vertical column provided by a theme for displaying information other than the main content of the web page. Themes usually provide at least one sidebar at the left or right of the content. Sidebars usually contain widgets that an administrator of the site can customize.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Sidebars
Many can argue, but mostly it depends on the needs…Here is an interesting article written by the designers of the Audi website on their decision to put their sidebar on the left or on the right. Most of the key points gathered here:
Where should the sidebar go? Should it be to the left of the content, or to the right? This is an important question to consider.
First of all, what are you going to put in the sidebar? Is it going to be for navigation? Are you going to use it for extra, less important things, like widgets and blogrolls?
I’ve found that navigational sidebars are more effective when placed on the left, rather than the right. Meanwhile, sidebars with less important things should go to the right, as you want people to focus on the content more. I find a left-hand navigational sidebar more comfortable than one on the right, don’t you? Maybe it’s the whole reading-from-left-to-right thing.
So, remember this:
Sidebars that are mainly navigation should go on the left because it feels more natural to look for navigation there. If you have a lot of navigational links, it might be a good idea to put them in a sidebar.
Sidebars that are mainly less important things should go on the right, which distracts from the content column less. If you don’t have many navigational links, and you can put them in a horizontal navigation bar near the top, you’ll probably want to go with this option.
Matt Anderson
http://www.webmaster-source.com/
