Removing sidebar from Liqourice theme

  • Batlhazar

    (@batlhazar)


    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hi, I have a site I’m rebuilding from a Travel blog I did last year.

    http://www.calligraphers-synonymous.com/
    I changed the theme to Liquorice but am having trouble configuring it. Goal is to remove the sidebar completely and have the content take the full width. To that end, I renamed sidebar.php to sidebar_OLD.php, and it removed the sidebar from the page. Then i changed 

    #primary-content {
	clear: both;
 	float: left;
	margin: 70px 40px 0 0;
	padding: 0 20px 0 0;
	width: 622px;
}

    to

    #primary-content {
	clear: both;
 	float: left;
	margin: 70px 40px 0 0;
	padding: 0 20px 0 0;
	width: 100%;
}

    Eureka! The content taking up all the space.

    Butttttt now all those original sidebar links are appearing at the bottom.

    I figure I need to comment things out in style.css but there is so much stuff in there under the /* =Sidebar and Widgets tag, I’m apprehensive about commenting the huge chunk out. Is there a better way to do this?

    Thanks
    Dwayne

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  • Pioneer Web Design

    (@swansonphotos)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Edit: below is done without modifying any PHP – review output CSS as per below:

    Add:

    #secondaryContent {display:none;}

    To discover what CSS is output by your theme, use a web inspection tool such as Firebug: http://getfirebug.com/ , Chrome Inspect Element: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/ or Internet Explorer 9+ F12 Dev. Tools: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd565627(v=vs.85).aspx#csstool

    There are others.

    When editing CSS, use a Child Theme
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
    Custom CSS Plugin, or Theme provided custom CSS option.
    Edits to parent themes are lost on theme update.

    Learn CSS: http://www.w3schools.com/css/

    Thread Starter Batlhazar

    (@batlhazar)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hey dood,

    Thanks for the advice!

    I’m just in the process of creating a Child theme now actually, saw someone else suggest it in another post and thought I better get on it 🙂

    But yea, I’m a Flash coder first and foremost, my CSS experience is lacking :/

    Cheers
    Dwayne

    Thread Starter Batlhazar

    (@batlhazar)

    12 years, 11 months ago

    Hey Seacoast Web Design

    I’ve got my Child theme up and running, and there was an update for the theme so i applied it, so now the content has reverted to the original theme style and I have to port my changes over again, all good, I will applie them to the child now.

    My style.css in liquorice-child currently has :

    /*
Theme Name:     Liquorice_Child
Theme URI:      http://www.nudgedesign.ca/wordpress-themes/liquorice
Description:    Child theme for the Liquorice theme
Author:         Dwayne Schick
Author URI:     http://www.calligraphers-synonymous.com/
Template:       liquorice
Version:        0.1.0
*/

@import url("../liquorice/style.css");

    I’m thinking I need to take individual tags from the parent version of style.css and paste them into my child version, and then modify them there right?

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