Try posting on the theme’s support forum: http://wprocks.com/forums/
Hi Danni,
The category.php or archive post page has a container ‘twocols’, the home page has a container ‘content’, and single.php both are already showing the sidebar!
If you mean category.php or archive.php with the twocols, if you create a second post the right hand area will be populated with post-2.
HTH
David
Hi Esmi
I posted on their forum a few days ago but have had no reply.
Hi David
Would you mind explaining that a bit further.
This page for example
http://lm-lakeland-design.co.uk/lisa/category/misc/
I would like the sidebar to show but as you can see it’s currently not.
Thanks
Danni
Hi Danni,
That is either category.php or archive.php, and it looks like it will add posts, side by side in rows, test it by adding a few more posts, add featured images to see if thumbnails appear, before you start ripping into code.
If you are still not happy, then in either category.php or archive.php you will need to add the call to the sidebar, and change ‘twocols’ to ‘content’!
HTH
David
Hi David
Well I tried the latter and it works 🙂 so thanks loads. But another problem, whilst the sidebar now shows it doesn’t display the widgets. I know that some themes only support widgets on the homepage, is there any way to force them to show on all pages?
Well I did something wrong, on http://www.lm-lakeland-design.co.uk/lisa
There is a post under the menu that wasn’t there before.
Any idea how I change the homepage link at the top to http://www.lm-lakeland-design.co.uk/lisa as opposed to lm-lakeland-design.co.uk/lisa/homepage2
Danni,
I just downloaded “Coffee Time” and there is no problem with single post pages and sidebars. The link you provided shows an overview page, which are set to display content just the way your example shows. “Archive Pages” are not meant to show a sidebar in this theme.
It appears that this theme is one of those which support widgets on the home page only.
As for the “homepage link at the top”, this might answer your question.
You may want to check “Fabulo”, that’s the theme used for wprocks dot com. It features a sidebar on all pages, and the widgets do also work smoothly.
Good Luck,
Gerry
Thanks Gerry
I just wanted confirmation that the theme only suppported widgets on the homepage, so again thanks for that.
I have Fabulo already install, the reason I didn’t stick with it was because I couldn’t manage to change the background of the sidebar to an image, do you know if that can be done?
Thanks for the link 🙂
Say, you want an image called sb-bg.png and a fallback background colour of white (in case the image won’t show in a browser, because of specific configuration or such).
Place image inside …/themes/fabulo/images/
Go to …/themes/fabulo > find style.css
Open it in an ASCII (plain text) editor, look for and edit #sidebar, like so:
#sidebar{
[various attribute:value pairs already there];
background: #ffffff url(images/sb-bg.png);
}
Good Luck,
Gerry
Oh, just in case you don’t want the image to be repeated:
background: #ffffff url(images/sb-bg.png) top left no-repeat;
G.
Hi Gerry
Thank you for your help, as I say I’ve tried posting on several forums and had no replies, so I really appreciate you helping me.
I tried that and it worked but didn’t look as good so I reverted back.
I am almost finished but have two more small issues. I tried all night to sort them without any luck.
The social icons at the top, I need to move them over to the right more so the RSS one lines up the the end of the header.
And on the footerbar, I need to remove the (1) opposite the Recent Entries.
As I say I’ve tried but with no luck.
Danni
PS Forgot one thing, I deleted the Cat menu bar and search box but it has left me with .Misc, which I can’t find anywhere.
Thanks again
Danni
“Cat menu bar”: since it’s still in place (in the source code), I suppose you deleted the rule(s) from the CSS.
The rule for the cat menu list is,
#catmenu ul
{
(...);
list-style: none;
}
The attribute:value pair in the example hides the bullets.
Never delete anything until completion. Simply use CSS /*comments*/ to hide settings, or repeat the rule you want to overrule with new settings right beneath it.
“Social Icons”: Change #social a to look like so:
#social a
{
border:0;
display:block;
float:left;
margin:5px 0 5px 20px;
padding:0;
}
All CSS settings in style.css, of course.
The (1): Open footerbar.php in your ASCII editor.
Then replace
<span class="alignright"><?php comments_number('(0)','(1)','(%)'); ?></span>
with
<!-- <span class="alignright"><?php comments_number('(0)','(1)','(%)'); ?></span> -->
That’s not the most elegant way of handling things, but the easiest for you to undo, should your customer decide she wants to have the number of comments displayed again.
Hi Gerry
Thanks, but I guess I am doing something wrong or missing something.
I changed it to:
#social a
{
border:0;
display:block;
float:left;
margin:5px 0 5px 20px;
padding:0;
}
But that doesn’t move the icons over to the left of the header, I tried changing the margin numbers but it didn’t make any different.
You are right I deleted the catmenu items from the css, with your comment about hiding things rather than deleting them I have added them back from the original, is it possible to hide them (menu bar and Misc link)?
Finally I changed the code in footerbar.php and that did get rid of the numbers as I wanted but it smoved the Hello World too far to the right.
Sorry if I am being dumb with any of this 🙂
UPDATE
Well I managed to hide the catmenu by adding #catmenu ul {display:none;} to the css.
I also managed to reposition the social icons by changing the width from 560px to 112Px, so it now looks like this:
#social
{
width:112px;
float:right;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#social a
{
border:0;
display:block;
float:left;
margin:5px 0 5px 0px;
padding:0;
}
Though I still can’t find how to move the Hello World text over without it affecting the other text in that section.
