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I’ve already reviewed it (very positively) when you helped me with an earlier question. Regardless, thanks for asking.

Steve, thanks for your advice. I apologize for the very belated reply. I’ve been swamped so I kept forgetting to come back and respond to your message. Anyway I ended up writing in Word (for convenience sake), then copying to the text editor for HTML formatting (italics, dashes, etc.) before pasting it into my post. I assume using FTP will be a better method rather than the 3-step process I using at the moment. Or supposedly I can upload a HTML file to WordPress. When I finally have time (and catch up on sleep), I’ll look into FTP as well as HTML file uploads. As I mentioned in my original query, this is all new to me so I stumbling around and slowly learning what’s what. Thanks again.

I perused the FTP instructions, and I’m already confused — for one thing, I don’t know how to log into my server via FileZilla. Also, in order to set up the child theme via FileZilla, it seems that I’ll have to delete the child theme files that I already created in my cPanel. Am I misunderstanding this?

I’m going to have to get back to you in a week or so. I don’t know how to use FileZilla, although it’s on my next month’s to-do list. I used it (once) to manually download and set up WordPress, but someone from my hosting company walked me through the steps, so I don’t remember or know what I did, and I have no clue where my WordPress files are located (in my local site?). Right now I don’t have time to learn how to use FileZilla because it’ll likely take me hours to find the tutorials and figure out what to do. Seriously, it took me over an hour to do the 5-minute manual WordPress set up, and I had to get help.

I guess for the time being I’ll revert back to the defective child’s functions.php that I originally had and use Additional CSS to customize. I’ll try to find time to look into FileZilla this week.

Oops, I forgot to close this thread by marking it resolved, which I’ll do now.

Fortis, once again, thank you so much for all your help.

Just to give you a heads up, you may hear from me again (and again). I may turn to you (or this Olsen forum) for help or have you take a quick look at whatever code I manage to cobble together from various sites. But I’ll try my best to search these forums and elsewhere for solutions and answers to my other problems before I do that.

Thanks again.

Thanks, Fotis. I did as you advised, however, the articles were displayed with bullets. I googled and found some information on Stack Overflow and a couple other places to (1) remove the bullets and (2) to add some space between the individual list items (articles).

Could you take a look at the code below and confirm that it looks okay? I want to make sure it’s “structurally” sound. From what I can tell, Bootstrap allows for both HTML and CSS to be combined together (in one place) instead of being in separate files. Anyway I made “style” changes to

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  <div class="row">
  	
  	<div class="col-sm-6">
  		<ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0; padding: 0">
  			<li style="margin: 0.25em 0">
  				<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/obama-trump-voters-democrats.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" target="_blank"><strong>The Missing Obama Millions</strong> | The New York Times</a>
  			</li>
  		</ul>
  	</div>
  
  </div>

  Thanks.

Fotis, sorry for not responding sooner. Things got busy, so I didn’t have time to check out your (Bootstrap grid?) code. However it seems to be working perfectly, although I’m still partly paranoid that something will go wrong. Regardless, I want to thank you profusely for this very simple, yet elegant, code. I really was expecting something complicated or just very long.

In regard to using a visibility plugin, I don’t think I’ll be using it. The “news sidebar” doesn’t appear on individual posts’ pages. On the other hand, when I click on a category or tag, it does appear on that category/tag’s page, but at the moment I’m okay with it. I’m just relieved to have that news sidebar. However, if I ever change my mind, I’ll check out the Jetpack plugin.

Thanks again. You are amazing!