• Hello,

    I am new to wordpress, and I know alittle about regular html. However, I know nothing about php, and CSS. Anywho, I own domain justin-dixon dot com I am trying to fix my wordpress blog..

    My “blog” is called my Journal, and it is going to be residing in the Links at the top of my page called Journal. Well.. Here is what I am trying to do. I am trying to make that huge footer menu at the bottom of the Journal page go to the left side.. I only want the menu to have.. The Search box, then, Categories, then, Archives, then I either want Meta Links(or whatever it may be called) or RSS feeds, I’m not sure which I want first.. I would like the menu to be customizable easily like a regular sidebar menu. I totally want to not have the bottom menu, however I want to know how to insert text, or some other item in the bottom if I want. So I want it to basically be just a blank white spot, however be able to insert text there, or insert a widget if I choose, or a picture.. Anyone Help?

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  • the only thing i see in your footer is an rss and another link, no menu.

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Hello, thanks for responding so quick. You didn’t go to the Journal tab.. That is where the “blog” that I want the menu to be in.

    okay, that explains it a little better. Edit your footer.php page, delete what you do not want to be there. and copy the code that is left into your sidebar.php where you want it placed

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Hello again,

    That seems easy enough, however.. What do you mean copy the code where I want it placed? How do I say which is first, and which isn’t, and so forth?

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Hmm.. Everything for the footer menu is already in sidebar.php
    I’m not sure if there is something in sidebar.php that makes it all stay at footer, or not. Unsure what to look for..

    There is only a few things in footer.php..
    Below is footer.php.. sidebar.php is huge, however I could post it if needed..

    <div id="footer">
    		<p><strong><?php bloginfo('name')?></strong> <a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url') ?>">(RSS)</a> + <strong>Sator-ii</strong> theme by <a href="http://yukei.net">Felipe Lavín</a></p>
    		<!--<p><a href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yui" title="Yahoo! User Interface CSS framework">YUI!</a> + <a href="http://www.jquery.com" title="jQuery: the write less, do more javascript library">jQuery</a> + <a href="http://www.brandspankingnew.net" title="Icons by Timothy Groves">Mini Icons</a>
    		<span class="meta-sep">|</span> <span id="generator-link"><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php _e( 'WordPress', 'sandbox' ) ?>" rel="generator"><?php _e( 'WordPress', 'sandbox' ) ?></a></span></p>-->
    	</div><!-- #footer -->
    
    </div><!-- #wrapper .hfeed -->
    
    <?php wp_footer() ?>
    
    </body>
    </html>

    your sidebar is all that is at the bottom, you have a three column layout. that whole sidebar deal to the left is part of your post not a sidebar.

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Huh? I don’t understand..

    I edited the sidebar.php I just edited where it says Categories, and just removed the C, and it reflected the change. I did however readd the C, but I don’t see anything on how to move to left side..

    I don’t know if there is anything in styles.css, or not… If there is what would it look like that makes the bar to the bottom(footer)?

    Sidebar.php below..

    <div class="yui-gb" id="sidebar-wrapper">
    	<div id="primary" class="sidebar yui-u first">
    		<ul class="xoxo">
    <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : // begin primary sidebar widgets ?>
    
    			<li id="pages">
    				<h3><?php _e( 'Pages', 'sandbox' ) ?></h3>
    				<ul>
    <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=&sort_column=menu_order' ) ?>
    				</ul>
    			</li>
    
    			<li id="categories">
    				<h3><?php _e( 'Categories', 'sandbox' ) ?></h3>
    				<ul>
    <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&show_count=0&hierarchical=1') ?> 
    
    				</ul>
    			</li>
    <?php endif; // end primary sidebar widgets  ?>
    		</ul>
    	</div><!-- #primary .sidebar -->
    
    	<div id="secondary" class="sidebar yui-u">
    		<ul class="xoxo">
    <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(2) ) : // begin secondary sidebar widgets ?>
    			<li id="search">
    				<h3><label for="s"><?php _e( 'Search', 'sandbox' ) ?></label></h3>
    				<form id="searchform" class="blog-search" method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('home') ?>">
    					<div>
    						<input id="s" name="s" type="text" class="text" value="<?php the_search_query() ?>" size="10" tabindex="1" />
    						<input type="submit" class="button" value="<?php _e( 'Find', 'sandbox' ) ?>" tabindex="2" />
    					</div>
    				</form>
    			</li>
    
    <?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_before=<h3>&title_after=</h3>&show_images=1') ?>
    
    			<li id="rss-links">
    				<h3><?php _e( 'RSS Feeds', 'sandbox' ) ?></h3>
    				<ul>
    					<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url') ?>" title="<?php printf( __( '%s latest posts', 'sandbox' ), wp_specialchars( get_bloginfo('name'), 1 ) ) ?>" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><?php _e( 'All posts', 'sandbox' ) ?></a></li>
    					<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url') ?>" title="<?php printf( __( '%s latest comments', 'sandbox' ), wp_specialchars( get_bloginfo('name'), 1 ) ) ?>" rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml"><?php _e( 'All comments', 'sandbox' ) ?></a></li>
    				</ul>
    			</li>
    
    			<li id="meta">
    				<h3><?php _e( 'Meta', 'sandbox' ) ?></h3>
    				<ul>
    					<?php wp_register() ?>
    
    					<li><?php wp_loginout() ?></li>
    					<?php wp_meta() ?>
    
    				</ul>
    			</li>
    <?php endif; // end secondary sidebar widgets  ?>
    		</ul>
    	</div><!-- #secondary .sidebar -->
    
    	<div id="terciary" class="sidebar yui-u">
    		<ul class="xoxo">
    	<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(3) ) : // begin primary sidebar widgets ?>
    			<li id="calendar">
    				<?php get_calendar(); ?>
    			</li>
    
    			<li id="archives">
    				<h3><?php _e( 'Archives', 'sandbox' ) ?></h3>
    				<ul>
    <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly') ?>
    
    				</ul>
    			</li>
    	<?php endif; ?>
    		</ul>
    	</div>
    </div>

    I know that, I am saying the sidebar would normally be to the left or the right of the post…….so the bottom “sidebar” is really where the footer would be.

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Uhm.. Hmm.. This is pretty confusing, lol..

    How do I get that sidebar to move from the footer area, to the left side of the page. So it’s left sidebar, then my blog posts.. Would that be changed in style.css? If so, what would I change, or look for, and what would I put to make it to the left?

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Anyone? I can’t find anything on how to do this.. In searching..

    Whats the name of your theme, so i can download it and see all the code

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    It’s called Sator-ii theme by Felipe Lavín, downloadable from http://code.google.com/p/satorii/downloads/list

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Anyone?

    Thread Starter justindixon

    (@justindixon)

    Anyone help me do this? I know the code for the bottom is in sidebar.css, however when I tried just copying all the code from Thematic theme sidebar-c1-l.css or whatever the left side bar css for Thematic theme, it just had the code at the bottom like I typed it in a paragraph. Is there anyone that can help me move all of that stuff from the bottom of the page to the left side, or even help me totally delete the bottom footer stuff, and just use widget(s) to make a left sidebar?

    Thanks,
    Justin

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