Title: Hookturn's Replies | WordPress.org --- # Hookturn [ ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * [Profile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * [Topics Started](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/topics/) * [Replies Created](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/replies/) * [Reviews Written](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/reviews/) * [Topics Replied To](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/replied-to/) * [Engagements](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/engagements/) * [Favorites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/favorites/) Search replies: ## Forum Replies Created Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Div positioning – PHP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/#post-3066836) * Thanks Andrew 🙂 * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Div positioning – PHP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/#post-3066823) * Thank you, I know it’s mainly a CSS issue, but it seems that I’d have to create the new `div` to wrap `.slideshow` and `#container` in the php somewhere and _that_ is what I don’t know what to do. Are you able to shed any light on that for me or tell me where it is I should go for help with that? * The way the css stylesheet is written I don’t think I can do anything beyond formatting elements already defined defined in the php. Or am I able to create a new `div` in the stylesheet? If you look at style.css above you’ll see that it’s pure css, no `
` tags at all. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Div positioning – PHP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/#post-3066765) * I deleted the div `#sbar` because the validator found that the code I’d used for it was invalid. I narrowed `.slideshow` and `#container` because I want the side bar to be next to them, but within `wrapper` so they need to be thinner to make room. Right now it seems that if `.sidebar` is inside `#container.clear` it _cannot_ be next to the slideshow. * I want it to display like this: [http://i49.tinypic.com/2lximv6.png](http://i49.tinypic.com/2lximv6.png) * I can use css to move the sidebar, but when I use `position: absolute` tags, it doesn’t display consistently in the index and post pages. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Div positioning – PHP](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/div-positioning-php/#post-3066758) * Hi Andrew, * Thank you for your response. I ran the markup validator link and found that most of the errors were my attempts to make the new div for the sidebar, I got rid of them, but still have no clue what I should do to position the sidebar where I need it. Any suggestions? * Also one of the issues seems to be that the searchbar is being used twice. That’s another problem I’ve been having. When I was editing Sight directly I was able to specify through theme menu options that I wanted the search bar in the sidebar and not the header. I did this in the child theme, but I think the parent theme is still giving the command for the search bar to appear in the header (as is the default) and I’m not sure how to turn it off. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [[Oxygen] [Theme: Oxygen] How to Change Featured Image Size](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-oxygen-how-to-change-featured-image-size/) * [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-oxygen-how-to-change-featured-image-size/#post-2869043) * Hi Eric, * You can access your functions.php (which is in your theme’s folder in wp-content >themes>[your theme’s name]) using your FTP program. Did you use one to install wordpress manually? If so reconnect your FTP program to your wordpress site and you should be able to navigate your folders. * If you didn’t install WP manually, check out this video: [http://vimeo.com/17147778](http://vimeo.com/17147778)– it explains manual WP installation, you needn’t reinstall WP, but it does explain how to connect an FTP program to your site and use it to upload/view/change files. * Hope this helps! * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Sight: Positioning Woes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/#post-3048165) * Sorry, but where on the dashboard should I be looking to see the homepage’s page attributes? * Would it be possible to make whatever changes I make part of he child theme afterwards? * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Sight: Positioning Woes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/#post-3048159) * I don’t think I can do that because the css sheet isn’t in an html structure and this theme doesn’t have an html stylesheet. It’s one of the reasons I’m finding it more difficult, I’ve dealt with css that links to an external stylesheet before( I’ve put an example of my stylesheet below) but the external sheet has always been written predominately in HTML structure. * My code looks like this: * > `body {font: 62.5% Georgia, Geneva, “Times New Roman”, times; background: # > 27292a url(“images/line.png”) 50% 0 no-repeat; padding: 24px 0;} > .clear:after{ > content: “.”; display: block; height: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden;} . > left {float: left;} .right {float: right;}` > ``` > .wrapper {width: 975px; background: #fff; margin: 0 auto; position: relative; > } > #container {padding: 10px 0 10px;} > ``` > > `//**Then there is the header and nav code***//` > ``` > #slideshow, .slideshow {height: 270px; width: 680px; overflow: hidden; position: relative; border-bottom: 1px solid #d9d9d9; > } > ``` > > `.slide {height: 270px; width: 680px; background: #ffffff;}` > `.slide img { > display: block; float: left; width: 420px; height: 270px; position: relative;` > top: -20px; left: -30px;}` `.slide .post {padding: 20px 30px 0; height: 250px;```}``. > slide .post-category {font-size: 11px; color: #d9d9d9; text-transform: uppercase; > margin-bottom: 5px;}` `.slide .post a {color: #000;}` `.slide .post .post-category > a {text-decoration: none;}` etc. etc. * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Sight: Positioning Woes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/#post-3048154) * That fixed the additional space when zoomed, thank you! The sidebar isn’t in exactly the correct postion now, but it is displaying consistently cross-browsers. Would I be able to safely change the `top:` and `right:` values to position it? * Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/) In reply to: [Sight: Positioning Woes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/) * Thread Starter [Hookturn](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hookturn/) * (@hookturn) * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sight-positioning-woes/#post-3048149) * Hi Andrew, thanks for the suggestion that I use a child theme, I saved a backup of the original style.css so I should be able to transfer my changes into a new child theme. * Sorry I wasn’t clear before in my post, I’ll try and explain again: * 1. What I meant was that while all the sidebar was positioned correctly for the browser window size, when I made the browser wider, a gap appeared between the main content and the side bar, which was apparent as there was a gap between the top and bottom borders of the “lastest entries” heading on the home page and the left hand border of the sidebar (that gets bigger the wider the browser window is). Furthermore, if the browser is made narrower, the borders intersect. * This also occurs in chrome, and furthermore the sidebar is too high up and off to the left (it still looks correct in espresso’s browser when the window is resized). * 2. * > In what instance isn’t the sidebar left border connected? * If a post gets beyond a certain length (eg. this one: [http://hookturnmelbourne.com/ipsum/](http://hookturnmelbourne.com/ipsum/)) the sidebar does not expand so that it always spans from the navigation bar to the footer (which I would like it to do). If the post is a shorter one however,( eg. [http://hookturnmelbourne.com/hello-world/](http://hookturnmelbourne.com/hello-world/)) Then it is too big. I think the latter is partially a result of my hiding the pagenav and comment sections using the code ‘display: none;’ (comments are disabled) but not having have been able remove them entirely. * 3. The issue here is that the soical sharing links seem to be tied to the particular div they are in, via php. No matter where I move their code in the stylesheet, or what values I fit in for their absolute positioning, they stay in that little div. I tried creating a new div that would display directly underneath the main content of a post, however this didn’t work at all. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total)