Vermillon sidebar theme modification

  • aengus01

    (@aengus01)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    I was wondering if anyone could be so kind as to help me change my sidebar appearance in my slightly modified vermillon theme

    Here is what it looks like now

    http://www.holidayroad.net/wordpress

    Here is a mockup of what I would like the sidebar to look like

    http://www.holidayroad.net/images/sidebarmod.png

    I have sliced that background rounded square up into a top, middle, and bottom graphic. I assumed I would put a top on, then the middle piece would repeat y, and then put the bottom graphic on. If this was a bad assumption, sorry ROFL.

    In the example the text is the default color of the theme and does clash. I would like a bolded white text if possible also.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much in advance! I am very new but trying to figure this all out.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    That would need fairly extensive sidebar template and stylesheet modifications/additions.

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    Thread Starter aengus01

    (@aengus01)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    OK, thank you. I gave it a shot and I think I “might” be close

    when you don’t know what your doing, you cant be sure haha.

    Anyway…

    http://www.holidayroad.net/wordpress to see what happened

    I put the url background in dive sidebar repeat-y

    made new tags sidebart (for top) and sidebarb for (bottom)

    the top shows correctly but the sidebar url background is ruinging my corners. The bottom won’t show at all.

    Heres what i think is the relevent code

    sidebar.php

    <div id="sidebar">
        <div id="sidebart"></div>

	<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
   		<div class="widget">
   			<ul>
   			<?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&title_before=<h3>&title_after=</h3>'); ?>
   			</ul>

   		</div>

   		<div class="widget">
      			<h3><?php _e('Meta', 'my-tapestry'); ?></h3>
      			<ul>
      				<?php wp_register(); ?>
      				<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
      				<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.">WordPress</a></li>
      				<?php wp_meta(); ?>
      			</ul>
   		</div>
	<?php endif; ?>
        <div id="sidebarb"></div>
</div>

    and my css

    #sidebar {
	width: 268px;
	float: right;
	margin-left: 20px;
        background: url(/images/sidebar_02.png) repeat-y;
}

#sidebart {
        width: 268px;
        height: 17px;
        background: url(/images/sidebar_01.png) top no-repeat;
}

sidebarb {
        width: 268px;
        height: 15px;
        background: url(/images/sidebar_03.png) bottom no-repeat;
}

    Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

    Thread Starter aengus01

    (@aengus01)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hello, I have really come a long way with working this out but am really at a loss of one remaining issue.

    If you take a look at http://holidayroad.net/wordpress now, you’ll see other than the obvious graphic edit I need to do for the background image of my sidebar, that most of what I was trying to accomplish is set.

    Quite proud of myself actually. anyway, If you look at the flickr plugin in the sidebar, you will see it has no margin. Why is that? does it not use the same property I’m using above it?

    Any suggestions on how to push that over a bit for a cleaner look?

    Thank you in advance

    Thread Starter aengus01

    (@aengus01)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    I figured it out!

    looking through the source I noticed an if exists class flickrrss

    I added #flickrrss to my css file with a padding-left: 20px and sure enough, if moved over.

    Now to fix my graphics 🙂

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