Beyond a novice with word press and I need some help, please!

  • massnj

    (@massnj)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    Hi all, I’m really hoping someone here can offer up some good advice to help me with the website I help to run. I’ve been reading through the posts here all morning and trying some of the tricks, but I STILL can’t see to get my site to work.

    Here’s what I need.. I volunteer for an non-profit organization and I’m in charge of all their social media which has somehow morphed into running their website as well. I know enough to do the very basic things, but when it comes to more advanced, I know next to nothing. I’m trying to create a text box that says “Other Ways To Give” at the top of the box, and then a grey text box with hyperlinks to the options. It sounds confusing, but this is what the goal is to look like: https://secure.innocenceproject.org/donate/help-free-the-innocent (note the “Other Ways To Give” text box towards the right). That’s what they want the page to look like.

    Help?? I’ve managed to be able to create a box with a border but it’s much too wide for what I need it for. I’m also completely clueless when it comes to widgets or things like that, and I don’t know if the box is actually a widget installed on their site. I’ve read through the coding on the “page source” for their page, but am even more lost after doing so.

    Thanks!!!!!!

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  • Suraj Lulla

    (@srjlulla)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Go to Appearance > Widgets or your theme options and find the sidebar section.

    Add a text box there.
    Write your heading in the “title” text box; in the content section add the following:

    <a class="sidebar-link" href="http://example.com">Monthly Sustaining Gift</a>
<br />
<a class="sidebar-link" href="http://example.com">Monthly Sustaining Gift</a>
<br />
<a class="sidebar-link" href="http://example.com">Monthly Sustaining Gift</a>
<br />
<a class="sidebar-link" href="http://example.com">Monthly Sustaining Gift</a>
<br />
    Suraj Lulla

    (@srjlulla)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    And then add the grey background + border with CSS

    Thread Starter massnj

    (@massnj)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks so much for that information.. I’m going to play around with it to see if I can get it to work. But before I do, I had an additional question.. The page I need to make the text box on isn’t on the main page; it’s on one of the sub pages. Does that make a difference with adding the text box into the sidebar section?

    This is my actual page I’m trying to update:
    http://innocenceprojectpa.org/donate-2/donate/

    I need to create a text box over towards the right of the page that has the donate options (Donor Advised Fund, Gift of Stock, etc.) inside there, instead of separate hyperlinks on the main page.

    Thanks again for the help!

    Thread Starter massnj

    (@massnj)

    7 years, 8 months ago

    I hit “send” too quick sorry.. On the page that I included the link for, I would need to make the text box above the “contact information” section, which I’m assuming is on the sidebar options somewhere?

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