Sidebar problem

cosmictiger
(@cosmictiger)

14 years, 7 months ago

Hello

I am a total newby to WordPress so my technical knowledge of it is virtually zero at the moment.

I have downloaded the ‘Sleek’ theme by Matt Carter and it’s looking good except that the right sidebar starts below the body text (see http://www.subliminal-messaging.org). The theme does contain a variable width advertising box in the sidebar which I would like to use.

I would be grateful for any help in very simple language.

Cheers!

Alan

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Michael
(@alchymyth)

14 years, 7 months ago

somebody editing the template file (index.php ? or page.php ?) has added inline styles, such as this one here:

<div class="postwrap" style="width: 717px;">

this makes the content area too wide for the sidebar to fit.

remove all these inline styles from the templates and use changes to the stylesheets to control the layout.

Thread Starter cosmictiger
(@cosmictiger)

14 years, 7 months ago

Hello Alchymyth

Thanks for the reply. However, it is beyond my current comprehension. I did eventually locate the code for index.php and page.php and they both contain the following:

<div class="postwrap" style="width:<?php echo getPostWidth().'px';?>;">

I have no idea what it means!

Cheers!

Alan

tooldiva
(@tooldiva)

14 years ago

Hi Cosmictiger….
I am also using Matt’s Sleek theme and having the same problem with the sidebar dropping down below the post. Looks like you fixed yours… can you share with me what you did?
My site is:
http://disasterbugout.com/4-person-survival-kit-deluxe/

Thanks

Michael
(@alchymyth)

14 years ago

your site has html validation errors:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdisasterbugout.com%2F4-person-survival-kit-deluxe%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

http://codex.wordpress.org/Validating_a_Website

despite the errors, the site seems ok in FireFox.

– what browser are you using?

tooldiva
(@tooldiva)

14 years ago

Hi… I was able to fix it by changing the <div class=”postwrap” style=”width: 917px;”> to “658px”.

Thanks!

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