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1. ejrodgers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm tweaking the classic theme, as part of my "learning" all about WP and themes. I'm stuck with adding an extra thin column to put a tabbed menu in. Anyone got any ideas.

   My site is: http://www.elliottrodgers.com and the blog is http://www.elliottrodgers.com/myblog

   Any advice or suggestions gratefully appreicated.

   Elliott

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   a general layou - you will have to play with it
   header.php
   below header stuff add something like

   <div id="navbar">
   	<ul id="nav">
   			<li><a href="<?php echo get_option('home'); ?>">Home</a></li>
   			<?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&depth=4&sort_column=menu_order'); ?>
   		</ul>
   	</div>

   then in stylesheet add something like
   

   #navbar {
   	width: 680px;
   	float: left;
   	margin: 0px;
   	padding: 0px;
   	}

   #nav {
   	margin: 0px;
   	padding: 0px;
   	}
   
   #nav ul {
   	float: left;
   	list-style: none;
   	margin: 0px;
   	padding: 0px;
   	}
   
   #nav li {
   	float: left;
   	list-style: none;
   	margin: 0px;
   	padding: 0px;
   	}

   you can style the links further with hover and whatever

3. ejrodgers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Thanks for the help... I'll go play with your suggestion and see what I can come up with!

   Cheers!

   Elliott

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I just sneaked a peak - wow the sidebar tabs are different!

5. ejrodgers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Well I've got myself much, much nearer.. sadly it's messed up the content slightly...

   Sorry to be a pain in the a*** any further thoughts!

   URL: http://www.elliottrodgers.com/myblog

   I'll keep experimenting until I hear back from you!

6. ejrodgers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   BTW is "sidebars are different" a good thing or a bad thing?

   I based the whole website layout on the idea of a "journal"...

7. ejrodgers
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Good News, I pretty much got it looking how I wanted... something in the feedback class was causing the problem... *shrug*

   Thanks again for the help. I gave you a thank you mention in the blog!

   Elliott

8. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   sorry just getting back but you did great - I really like it

9. msj904
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Please advise were I can get full tutorial on how to edit my themes that are coming with different packages like atomic blogging and profit blogger

10. ejrodgers
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Sam - :-D I've still got more to do but am a lot happier now the bulk is done.

    msj904 -

    I bought a book (WordPress for Dummies), used the stuff in the WordPress Codex (http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development), experimented and asked a couple of questions here.

    This site has a good tutorial - http://jonathanwold.com/tutorials/wordpress_theme/

    Elliott

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