Side Bar Ads

My website is http://www.savingdave.com I’m using the EvoLve theme for wordpress. I have very few plugins installed. One of them being the “Executable PHP Widget”. My ads looked great in the side bar, 300×250 pixel ads centered great in their fields, and my table with six 125×125 pixel ads were also nicely centered in the PHP Code: field in the side bar, as well.

I’m a major dummy and probably have no business trying to create a website or blog. I really had no clue how wordpress works and what is stored where until I made a huge mistake.

I had not backed up my website using the backup feature in the Admin Console provided my my host. I was backing up the files with filezilla. I now know that this is not a backup.

Thinking I had a good back up, I attempted to change ONE thing on my site which was to add a picture into the header using the EvoLve Settings page that installed with my theme in the wordpress dashboard.

After adding the picture I didn’t not like the appearance of the header and wanted to remove it. There was NO WAY to do this, other than hit the reset button on the bottom of the page.

I debated doing this, and after checking and realizing that there was only one change to the default settings and that was the font, other than that I had not changed anything in the header settings, so I reset the header and changed the font for the site back to Ariel, from it’s default.

Screwed up my sidebar appearance and the ads are no longer centered.

Having no back up to go to, I’m stuck trying to fix what I have.

I have gone to the site for the theme, explained what happened and was told to past the following code into the “Custom CSS” field in the “Styles” tab on the “EvoLve Settings” page:

.widget_execphp .widget-content {
margin-left:10px !important;
}

I did so and it did not correct anything. When I pointed this out, I was told, “works for me”.

I have also been told on other forums that it is not their responsibility to write code for me! I have been told that I need to FIGURE IT OUT!

I have tried a few things attempting to fix the problem. Here are the other things I’ve done to attempt to fix it:

1) Changed to another theme, it was worse.

2) Deactivated and removed all my plugins from the plugins folder, and added them back in. Still looks the same!

3) Added the code into the Custom CSS field as stated above.

I realize that:

1) this is my fault
2) it is no one’s problem but mine
3) no one is going to help me write code for my site

It’s really frustrating to have done something as simple as add and remove a picture from the header on my site, only to end up having to learn how to write code for workpress and troubleshoot it to figure out what happened, and fix it.

I have no idea how to even start this process, or what to look for.

I came here to ask where do I go to even start this process, and what do I even look for?

I’m sorry for the long post!