Lorelle

And see this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/189058

Control over the placement of the icon is through the CSS styles. Set that style to include the image alignment to the right.

But you have bigger problems. You’ve either removed or didn’t pick up any of the DIV nor spans required to associate the styles with the HTML. You’ve also put in archaic font colors and code which must be removed and put in the stylesheet.

Go back to the original sources of the code and copy them, including the DIV wrappers which include CLASS and ID identifiers. In the styles.css file is the place to change the color, alignment, and placement, not the template files.

I know you want your web design to emulate another design, and you want it to look a particular way, but you are delving into places where, if you really don’t know how to do this, you are going to waste more time, energy, and money poking and prodding this.

I recommend you take this very slow and carefully, and get personal help from someone familiar with web design close to you.

Or go carefully through the WordPress Lessons in the WordPress Codex, the manual for WordPress users, to figure out how to do this.

Have you contacted the designer of the site you want to emulate for their help?

Here are some more resources for the answer:

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Posting the same day with date displayed for each post.

I’ll keep looking later to find a Theme with that specific layout. Anyone else know of one right off the top?

In your WordPress Theme files, find sidebar.php. This is your sidebar template file.

Every WordPress Theme has similar but different structure for the sidebar links. You will want to look for something labeled “Pages”, though it might be different for your Theme.

The “correct” structure, replacing the information with your URL and desired effect, would be:

<ul id="pageslist">
<li><a href="/index.php" title="Home Page">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="/index.php?cat=7" title="Category Something">Specific Category Link</a></li>
<li><a href="http://example2.com/" title="Another Blog">Another Blog Link</a></li>
<li><a href="http://example.com/a-blog-post" title="A specific post on your blog">A Blog Post Title</a></li>
<?php wp_list_pages('exclude=2, 6, 4&depth=1&use_desc_for_title=0&sort_column=menu_order&title_li='); ?>
</ul>

The above example includes:

* A link to your home page (index.php)
* A link to a specific category of posts you might want to feature
* A link to an external blog, such as another blog of yours or a favorite blog you recommend
* A link to a specific post (or Page) you may want to feature
* A list of links to your blog Pages (like About, Contact, etc.) which does not include category IDs for 2, 6 and 4, nor subPages. The list of Pages is in menu order and includes other formating instructions.

You can mix and match and order this anyway you like in the sidebar.php template file.

This same structure can work for featuring “static” links in the footer and header if desired.

It’s called a “jump to target” link, in old fashioned lingo.

<a href="/page-name#tohere">jump to here</a>

Would take the user to:

<a name="tohere"></a>

You can customize it from there with whatever you want.

I recommend you check out Creating a Static Front Page, The Loop in Action. A query may be your best bet, though.

If the page cannot be displayed on your blog, that could mean that there is an error in the WordPress Theme that stops a Plugin or code from working. That could account for the refresh problems.

Have you checked to see if your WordPress Theme and WordPress Plugins are on the compatibility lists: WordPress Plugin Compatibility List and WordPress 2.1 Theme Compatibility List.

This could account for all your troubles.