I'm currently going through and creating a bunch of pages in the Pages app. Things like a "Terms and conditions" page, an "Advertise with us" page, an "About us" page, etc, etc.

For each of these pages, I want a standard sidebar. But it seems I have to add a sidebar and set up all the blocks on every individual page I create. It's getting pretty tedious now, and it's going to be a real pain to change anything down the track if I have to go through page by page.

Surely that's not right, and there's a way to turn on a standard "universal" sidebar? What am I missing?

8 minutes ago, Pseudonym said:

… and there's a way to turn on a standard "universal" sidebar? 

No. 
The only way around this would be to create your pages as database records for one database. That database then sits on one page with one sidebar. 

Damn. That wasn't the answer I was hoping for. But thanks!