Title: Widget Area Issues S.O.S! Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Widget Area Issues S.O.S! * [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/) * Hi, * I’m having two main issues with my right hand widget area in the twenty eleven theme. * 1)I want the widget area itself to stretch the entire height of the page.In other words so it auto-stretches to the height of the containing Div.I cannot however work out how to do this after trying various methods. * 2)I would like the widget area to NOT refresh itself when you navigate around the site,make comments etc. * The reason for this being is that I am using the soundcloud is gold widget to play music and I would like it so you can play some music and navigate around the rest of the site without interupting the music.Currently because the widget area refreshes itself everytime you go to another page etc the music stops and you have to hit play again. * Any help with this would be super appreciated. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 15 total) * [graphical_force](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphical_force/) * (@graphical_force) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177245) * If that is the case, it sounds like you don’t want to actually go to another page, you just want to get content for the main content area dynamically. * Thread Starter [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177254) * Possibly that could be the case. * Surely though it must be possibly to set the secondary widget are so that it simply just doesn’t refresh. * Wouldn’t things quickly get complicated by retrieving the main content area dynamically as this would also involve commenting etc. * [graphical_force](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphical_force/) * (@graphical_force) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177258) * If you go to another page, it refreshes the whole page. If you don’t want to refresh then you are really pulling in content into some containers. * And yes, it would get complex quickly. * Thread Starter [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177268) * There must be someway to deactivate refresh on the widget area as I could understand that when using the browser to go forwards and backwards through pages it would refresh the whole page but when using the navigation on the site itself then surely there is no need to refresh the widget area aswell as this would only increase loading time and also make using plug-ins such as soundcloud is gold pretty much redundant if every time you want to leave a comment the music stops! * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177272) * Have you asked on the plugin’s own forum? * [http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/soundcloud-is-gold](http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/soundcloud-is-gold) * Thread Starter [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177277) * No I haven’t as the question is only loosely related to the plug-in.The question itself is whether or not it is possible to NOT have the widget sidebar refresh when navigating around the site. * Thread Starter [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177279) * After searching the plug-ins own forum,this is the answer I found regarding this query: * “For the player, that’s not something that can be done by the plugin, it’s something you have to do with your theme.’ * [graphical_force](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphical_force/) * (@graphical_force) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177287) * Yes, it would be something that would be with the theme it’s just that the hope was that a plugin like that would most likely see requests for something like this. * The issue your describing would have to be with the theme and there lies your answer: it’s the theme code so if you want something like that it would have to be built into the theme but it is not default behavior by WordPress. That is not something that some people may want. If you do not have a change in url, then how do you bookmark a page with content since it is all the same page? Again, I’m just pointing out a few things but there can be some downside to that kind of functionality. * Thread Starter [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177293) * I understand that.However I thought it would be possible like it is for any other website to not have the secondary DIV refresh?So yes the URL would still change for the relevant page but the Widget Area would simply not refresh along with the content in the Primary DIV. * [graphical_force](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graphical_force/) * (@graphical_force) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177297) * I’m not aware of that and I would say most websites do not do that but that is neither here nor there. * If you are going to a new page then it is reloading all the content. Maybe someone else can shed some more light on it. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177302) * I think you have to use an iframe to do that – which, as mentioned already, isn’t great in other ways. * Thread Starter [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177321) * So is the crux of this that it’s not really going to be possible without a hell of a lot of messing around? * I really thought it would be relatively easy to implement. * Anyone have any idea on how to answer the first part of my question.How to get the widget area to stretch all the way down to the footer? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177337) * > So is the crux of this that it’s not really going to be possible without a > hell of a lot of messing around? * Yes, so far as I know. * The other question would take quite a lot of coding as well – definitely should done using a child theme…[http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes) * Thread Starter [Wolfman1000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wolfman1000/) * (@wolfman1000) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177338) * Hi. * Yes I have all ready created an extensively customised childtheme including code to include it as a theme option within the dashboards theme settings. * I just can’t figure out why I can’t get it to ‘stretch’.I’ve tried setting the secondary’s height values to auto,100% but still no dice. * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-area-issues-sos/#post-4177353) * Might not be possible using just CSS, but a link to your site would be helpful. 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