Eric Mann

You need to edit your stylesheet. Right now, it is likely set up to display the “main” content only to a specific width. The sidebar is set to be a certain width on the right. You need to find the right sections of your style.css file and add the two numbers together to make it stretch to fill the whole page.

That’s what we lost in the long forum post … I thought we had been working with page.php and just now noticed we had been working instead with single.php. My mistake for not catching that the first time around.

I’m glad it’s working for you now!

What error is showing up? Is it a WordPress error page, a server error page, or something else?

There’s a very good chance that the amount of traffic you’re getting is just really taxing on your server. You might want to look in to a plugin like WP Super Cache (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/) that makes your most popular pages into static HTML files. This way, users aren’t requesting the same dynamic page from the database every time and burning through your available processing power.

Sculley –

Clear your browser cache. I just clicked on your http://www.verbalremedies.com/wp-admin link and was taken directly to your login screen. It’s still there, your computer is just probably trying to access outdated information.

Rob,

Actually, the changes need to be made in your other theme files. If you want, I can take a peek at them and add the code in the appropriate places for you. You’ll actually have to make changes to either the sidebar file or to the files referencing it … but I’ll have to see them first to be sure where the change needs to be.

If you want, I can just change it for you. It will take at most 5-10 minutes for me to find and fix the code. Set up a temporary admin account and email the information to me at: eric [at] eamann [dot] com. I’ll add the code for you, then you can delete the account.

I found a plugin the other day that allows you to use an external means to authenticate users within WordPress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/http-authentication/ This might be what you’re looking for if you can get your external site to work with it properly.

Restricting pages within WordPress to registered, signed-in users is actually quite simple.

1. Create a new page template (by copying page.php, renaming it, and uploading it back to the server).
2. Add the following to the top part of the page template:
3. Find the line “<div class=”post-content”><?php the_content() ;?></div>” and change it to:

<div class="post-content">
<?php global $user_ID;
      get_currentuserinfo();
?>
<?php if($user_ID) {
      the_content();
      } else {
      echo '<p style="font-size: 36px;"><center><a href="' . get_settings('home') . '/wp-login.php?action=register">Please Register!</a></center></p>';
      echo '<p style="font-size: 11px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You must be a registered user to view this page.</p>';
}
?>
</div>

This script checks to see if the user is logged in. If they are, then the page will display normally. If not, then they’ll see a message asking them to register.