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  • I’m a newcomer to WordPress and code. I am working with THAT Music Theme 1.2 in my website proliferousrose.com/wordpress. Can someone tell me how to create a column to the right of the ones on my Home and About Proliferous Rose pages as well as how to enter an image in that column?

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  • Unless your theme supports this sort of thing via the Dashboard, you’re looking at making some fairly heavy modifications.

    You’ll need to identify the types of page/post on which you want the new column and then you’ll have to modify the HTML/CSS in the appropriate temple files to make the pages look like you want them when those templates are called.

    You should, of course, do this in a child theme and should only do it if your HTML/CSS skills are up to it.

    HTH

    PAE

    Thread Starter hrowland

    (@hrowland)

    Thanks again for your help. After some thought, I’m not sure I need to create a column as such. Rather, perhaps, I need to fill the space to the right side of the content on my Home and About Proliferous Rose pages, probably with an image. Originally, there were columns there for links, categories, etc. Since I didn’t need them, I removed them by deleting all the code in the rsidebar.php (I copied the code, so I still have access to it). Maybe that wasn’t a good move, as it may have eliminated the possibility of adding content on that side of the pages. As I said, I’m new to this sort of thing and am floundering quite a bit. I’ve been able to change several things by removing code I was able to identify as this or that, but I don’t know how to create anything in their place, aside, now, from the information you’ve given me.

    If you’re making heavy modifications you really should use a child theme. If you don’t, updates to your theme can overwrite your changes.

    If you’re really new to WordPress and code, the most sensible thing to do is just to go with a theme that gives you most of what you want without making any changes you can’t make from the Dashboard. Then, as you become confident at using all the facilities that WP offers as standard, you can start dipping your toe in the water of customisation. It genuinely is better, almost always, to learn to walk before you start to run.

    Good luck, and enjoy your blogging. You’ll find WP is a first class tool.

    Cheers

    PAE

    Thread Starter hrowland

    (@hrowland)

    Sounds like good advice. Thanks once again for all your help.

    Herb

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