carolyn99

janio,

hope this helps you – what i did was installed XAMMP and am using the twentyeleven theme again and it’s working fine ie sidebar in side and NOT bottom – i have it working locally and i am planning on moving all the files over to website but just not yet.

had to take the changes out as i cant log into the dashboard of site – still after any suggestions though – thx

I must be doing something strupd, or wrong or both. I cant get the sidebar to show up at ALL. I have multiple widgts in the ‘Main sidebar’ and the ‘Showcase sidebar’ and there’s no sidebars showing.

Please can someone explain how to get sidebars up – thanks

I think it has to do with the way i’ve been stuffing around with the style.css in the child theme.
I found a you tube video for kentucky classrooms and it explained ‘Basic editing of the wordpress twentyten theme’ and then i found another ‘http://zeaks.org/twenty-ten-child-theme-how-to/’
that seems to be quite good as well. I can move the sidebar from side to side now but it never moves it up to top.

I have the following in my child theme’s style.css and i think it may be here that i need to alter to get it to move sidebar to top?

@import url(“../twentyten/style.css”);
#branding img {
border-top: none;
border-bottom: none;
}

#header {
padding: 0 0 0;
}

#primary,#secondary {
float: right;
width: 280px;
}

if i change the #primary,#secondary {

to

#primary, #secondary {
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
width: 220px;
margin-left: 10px;
}
#secondary {
clear: left;
}

and below that to

#container {
float: right;
margin: 0 -250px 0 0;
width: 940px;
}
#content {
overflow:hidden;
}

it does move the blogroll sidebar to left, but not up

i’ve left my site that way if you want to have a look.
i think i may be better to have a basic twentyten wordpress install again and start from scratch – is that posible? and if so how do i go about it?
i signed up for a free two week with woo themes and got their canvas theme, but i would prefer a free theme – it seems to be ok with the sidebar though.
Do you think it’s worth paying for one ? either this one, or i think i’ve seen DIY thesis a bit – i think from what ive seen/experienced that wordpress isn’t that easy. Maybe it’s a steep learning curve whichever theme is chosen, but its really frustrating not having doco that make sense so when u try something and it doesn’t work it breaks something else and it’s hard to know how to put it back…