- 🇮🇪Ireland markconroy
We don't seem to have reached consensus on this, and we haven't had a reply to it in over 8 years.
My take is that 'sidebar' - for better or worse - is the generally accepted name for these "things" in web nomenclature and we might as well go with what is being used. There are lot of things with names that could be better - radio buttons for example, when no one has radios like that any more; headless - really?
Sidebar seems like a good name to me. It implies it's a sliver of "stuff" beside other content. Which it is on large screens at least.
After all this time we are still using "sidebar" in our core themes, so that seems to at least be some sort of consensus that we will keep doing so.
I'm going to mark this as "Won't fix", re-open if you think we should still work on it.