Lorelle

Okay, I use two different plugins to get the effect in my website in the sidebar’s post meta data section.

The first one uses the Eric Meyer Plugin but it was “broken” so here is a paste bin link to my fixed version of that plugin.

The second one uses Scriptygoddess Next Previous Post Plugin.

<p class="postmetadata">This article is from the categories of <?php the_category(' and '); ?>. Updated <?php last_modified('F jS, Y'); ?>. <?php mw_previous_post('%', '', 'The previous article is ', '. ', 'yes', 'yes') ?><?php mw_next_post('%', '', 'The next article is ', '.', 'yes', 'yes') ?>
<?php previous_cat_post($beforeGroup='', $afterGroup=' &laquo;&laquo; ', $beforeEach=' &bull; ', $afterEach='', $showtitle=false, $textForEach=' <b>%</b>'); ?>
<?php next_cat_post($beforeGroup=' &raquo;&raquo; ', $afterGroup='', $beforeEach='', $afterEach=' &bull; ', $showtitle=false, $textForEach=' <b>%</b>'); ?>

By the way, I REALLY am not happy with my layout as it won’t say within the categories, so I’ll be changing it soon now that the WordPress template tag will stay within categories…so they say.

vkaryl is right in how to use styles “inline” in your posts. But you can’t do this for every post.

Check to make sure you are changing the RIGHT style sheet. Check the name of the WordPress Theme you are using and make sure that it matches the name of the folder in which the style.css file you are editing is located.

When you say that you add it to the style sheet it seems to ignore it, you can’t just “add” styles to the style sheet. For instance, if you already have a style set for, say, paragraphs, and you add another style for paragraphs, then which one is it going to pay attention to?

There is a helpful article on the Codex, the online manual for WordPress, that will help you find the styles within your stylesheet so you can change THAT style specifically.

And if it “ignores you” then what does that mean? That you can’t edit the style sheet or that you don’t see the changes on the screen?

If you are more specific with how you want to change things and what you want to change, then we can be more specific.

http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_the_Read_More

Will answer most of these questions.

First, please don’t post long blocks of code. With the link to your site we can gather all the information we need about the CSS and XHTML on that page.

Second, you have more problems than just a stray div. These need to be fixed. Which may also fix your problem.

Third, consider a visit to the WordPress Codex to read Finding Your CSS Styles which will help you play detective to narrow down the problem.

Fourth, when you change one building block on your site, you have to change all the rest. Make sure that your content area and comment area are narrow enough to accommodate the addition of the sidebar. Consider trying a small number of columns here:

<label for="comment">Your Comment</label><br />
<textarea name="comment" style="border: 1px solid #000;" id="comment" cols="50" rows="9" tabindex="4"></textarea>

Change cols="50" to cols="40" or some lesser number and see if the sidebar jumps up.

If so, they you will have a bit of wait ahead of you.

It is several months from release.

Meanwhile, SERIOUSLY consider limiting your categories. 😉

Or write a plugin to do the same thing – or get a friend to. Others would probably love it.

Okay, what you need to do is find every reference to get_header(); and change that to:

include(get_template_directory() . '/header2.php');

This is not going to be easy.

Or you can follow the simple instructions at

http://codex.wordpress.org/Designing_Headers