Title: Theme coding questions
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Theme coding questions

 *  Resolved [taji34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taji34/)
 * (@taji34)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/)
 * ok i’m using the theme jQ 3.1 by Devolux and i had a couple of coding questions.
   first when i edit the search bar out of the content in the 404 error page the
   background comes up to the text and leaves a hug space between there and the 
   footer. is there anyway to take the search bar out with out it doing that? Also
   i want to edit out the search bar and the “made by” bubble out of the footer 
   but when i do it the tag cloud goes above the archive. i want the tag cloud to
   be next to the archive bubble to the left.
    This is the code for the 404 page
   with out any changes:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       <div id="content">
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
       <div id="text">
       <h2>Not found!</h2>
       <?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
       <!-- search template -->
       <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
       </div>
       </div>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * To remove the search bar i take out this:
 *     ```
       <!-- search template -->
       <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . "/searchform.php"); ?>
       ```
   
 * so that now the code looks like this:
 *     ```
       <?php get_header(); ?>
       <div id="content">
       <?php get_sidebar(); ?>
       <div id="text">
       <h2>Not found!</h2>
       <?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?>
       </div>
       </div>
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * To see what happens you’ll have to do that yourselves since i don’t know if i
   can post images.
 * This is what the code for the footer looks like before hand:
 *     ```
       <!-- footer template -->
       <div id="appendix" class="clearfix">
       <div class="app_widget">
       <!-- sidebar_bottom_left -->
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_bottom_left') ) : ?>
       <div class="widget">
       <h4><a href="#" title="Toggle" class="hide_widget">Find it!</a></h4>
       <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php'); ?>
       </div>
       <?php endif; // endif widget ?>
       <p class="wp-bookmark"><a class="wp-logo" href="http://wordpress.org"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/wordpress-logo.png" alt="WordPress"/></a></p>
       <div id="credits">Theme Design by <a href="http://devolux.nh2.me"><strong>devolux.nh2.me</strong></a></div>
       </div>
       <div class="app_widget">
       <!-- sidebar_bottom_middle -->
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_bottom_middle') ) : ?>
       <div id="tag_cloud" class="widget">
       <h4><a href="#" title="Toggle" class="hide_widget">Tag Cloud</a></h4>
       <div><?php wp_tag_cloud(); ?></div>
       </div>
       <?php endif; // endif widget ?>
       </div>
       <div class="app_widget">
       <!-- sidebar_bottom_right -->
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_bottom_right') ) : ?>
       <div  id="archives" class="widget">
       <h4><a href="#" title="Toggle" class="hide_widget">Archives</a></h4>
       <ul><?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=12'); ?></ul>
       </div>
       <?php endif; // endif widget ?><a id="totop" href="#">To top</a>
       </div>
       </div>
       </div>
       <!-- wp_footer -->
       <?php wp_footer(); ?>
       </body>
       </html>
       ```
   
 * at the moment i take out these to remove the things i want to:
 *     ```
       <p class="wp-bookmark"><a class="wp-logo" href="http://wordpress.org"><img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/img/wordpress-logo.png" alt="WordPress"/></a></p>
       <div id="credits">Theme Design by <a href="http://devolux.nh2.me"><strong>devolux.nh2.me</strong></a></div>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * but then as i said before the tag cloud goes above the archive bubble but i want
   them to be next to eachother. any ideas? thanks for the help.

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 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398455)
 * Do you have an URL? The easiest way to help you with this is to poke around on
   your site with FireBug.
 *  Thread Starter [taji34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taji34/)
 * (@taji34)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398493)
 * ok. the site is [http://www.gamewaystudios.com](http://www.gamewaystudios.com).
   it has a redirect. i’ll take it off. to get the 404 page go to here [http://www.gamewaystudios.com/ggfh](http://www.gamewaystudios.com/ggfh).
   
   the other stuff im talking about is in the footer.
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398539)
 * Make the changes you want, like removing those ‘bubbles’ then come back and I’ll
   try to help you format what’s left.
 *  Thread Starter [taji34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taji34/)
 * (@taji34)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398681)
 * ok ill take the stuff out. then ill post when the stuff is changed and you can
   look at the site.
 *  Thread Starter [taji34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taji34/)
 * (@taji34)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398728)
 * ok i changed the template. go to [http://www.gamewaystudios.com/dsf](http://www.gamewaystudios.com/dsf)(
   this brings you to the 404 page) i fixed the footer so you don’t need to worry
   about that. its the 404 page you need to look at. obviously you can see the problem
   with the white background. i mean all i can think of is adding a bunch of `<br/
   >'s` to the code. any suggestions?
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398729)
 * Ok. Open your stylesheet and put `float:right` on `div#content`.
 *  Thread Starter [taji34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taji34/)
 * (@taji34)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398739)
 * yay! thnx. could you please explain how this fixed my problem? like i can see
   the outcome but dont get why floating right would help.
 *  [s_ha_dum](https://wordpress.org/support/users/apljdi/)
 * (@apljdi)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398764)
 * Floats are weird. Sometimes floated elements break out of their parent element.
   It doesn’t really make sense to me but that’s how it works. You can ‘trap’ the
   floated elements by putting a float on the parent element.
 *  Thread Starter [taji34](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taji34/)
 * (@taji34)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-coding-questions/#post-1398775)
 * i guess that kinda helps me understand. oh well. thnx for the help.

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