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1. idyllology
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello,

   I hardly know programming, and yet, by hook or crook, have managed to significantly customize the blog I've been working on, which is almost complete. I've run up against something of a wall, though.

   Here is my site: forwhatitsworth.be

   I want to change both the appearance and text of certain sidebar widgets. In particular, the one that says: 'Join Mailing List... Your email... Enter email...' (I created this widget via the Subscribe2 Plugin.)

   For the life of me, I cannot find the applicable code within WordPress to edit this widget. I've looked in all the theme php folders and all the plugin php folders (as far as I know), and can't find it.

   Does anyone have any ideas?

   Also, I want to add code for (1) an RSS feed and (2) a Donate button below this subscription button, but have no idea where to put the code. When I try putting it into my sidebar.php, it either always shows up in the wrong place & spaced improperly (not being affected by the theme css) or not at all.

   I'm using the 'Journic' theme, by the way.

   Any help from the programming-minded would be... helpful. All I really need to do is just pinpoint where this code is so I can edit it.

   Thanks!

2. MattyRob
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @idyllology,

   The appearance of text is set in CSS files included in your theme. You probably don't need to make any changes there, you just need to use the right DIV tag classes or ids.

   Sidebar.php should be the right file.

3. idyllology
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi MattyRob,

   Thanks for the reply. Just to clarify a bit...

   I've done all I can in the CSS editor to change the appearance of sidebar widgets, and have been able to change them to some extent.

   However, some of their appearance seems to be over-ridden by other code somewhere. This code is also responsible for the text written in them; ie, in the Subscribe2 widget, "Join Mailing List :: receive new posts...," in the Donate Widget, "If you benefit from..." etc. I tried checking the php files of the plugins themselves, but could not find it there. I thought it would be in sidebar.php, but it's not. Can't find it anywhere.

   FYI, here is what is currently inside my sidebar.php:

   [code moderated according to forum rules - please use the pastebin]

4. MattyRob
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @idyllology,

   Your last comment was moderated for code content. Please can you try again and link to code hosted externally.

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