Title: Help editing a theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Help editing a theme

 *  Resolved [mcdogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcdogs/)
 * (@mcdogs)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/)
 * I have set up a site at [http://www.bingoformen.com/](http://www.bingoformen.com/).
   As you can see the front page is thrown all out depending on how many words I
   use in the first paragraph of each post. Is there any way of changing this so
   each box is a set size or even better changing it so instead of two rows I just
   have one row with the 6 most recent posts.
 * This is the the main index code:
 *     ```
       <?php
       get_header();
       ?>
   
       <?php $count = 0;?>
       		<?php query_posts('showposts=6'); ?>
       	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   
       <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
   
       <div class="postindex" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   
       <h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
   
       <div class="entry">
       <?php the_excerpt(__('Readmore �'));?>
   
       </div>
       <div class="spacer"></div>
       	<ul class="post-data">
       	<li class="comments">
       <?php comments_popup_link('No Comments &raquo;', '1 Comment &raquo;', '% Comments &raquo;'); ?>
       </li>
       	<li class="posted">
       <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author() ?> <?php edit_post_link('Edit','',''); ?>
       </li>
   
       </ul>
       </div>
   
       <?php comments_template(); ?>
       					<?php
       					if($count == 1 ) {
       					echo "<div style='clear:both;'></div>";}
       					$count = $count+1;
       					?>
   
       <?php endwhile; else: ?>
       <p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       <?php posts_nav_link(' — ', __('&laquo; Previous Page'), __('Next Page &raquo;')); ?>
   
       <?php get_footer(); ?>
       ```
   
 * Any help greatly appreciated thanks.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042414)
 * it’s frustrating as all hec to keep getting redirected to log in
 *  Thread Starter [mcdogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcdogs/)
 * (@mcdogs)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042509)
 * Hmm you should not have to log in to see the site ?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042529)
 * > Is there any way of changing this so each box is a set size or even better 
   > changing it so instead of two rows I just have one row with the 6 most recent
   > posts.
 * Welcome to the world of floated boxes/divs. The short answer is no.
 * The long answer is that, even setting an absolute height on those boxes isn’t
   going to make any difference. You will never get them to line up exactly as browsers
   are designed to expand the height of the boxes to fit the text. So, as soon as
   you have 1 text character more in Box A compared to Box B, you end up with an
   imbalance.
 * The best you can hope for is to “reset” the boxes after every second box using`
   clear:left` after every other box so that they line up in rows of 2 but even 
   then, you can end up with an empty space because the left-hand box is longer 
   than the right-hand one.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042531)
 * P.S: The best way around the problem is to shun this kind of floated box altogether
   if there is any chance that the content will be variable. A single column of 
   boxes – each taking up most of the page width – would be the simplest way to 
   deal with the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [mcdogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcdogs/)
 * (@mcdogs)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042570)
 * Ideally that is what I want esmi, a single row of 6 boxes instead of two rows
   of 3, any ideas how I can go about this please?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042603)
 * A single **row** of boxes isn’t going to fit across that content area.
 *  Thread Starter [mcdogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcdogs/)
 * (@mcdogs)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042647)
 * I do not want them in a row I want them one under the other so each one would
   be the full width of the content area.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042649)
 * Edit style.css (line 222)
 * Replace:
 *     ```
       #content .postindex {
       	background:#DFDFDF url(images/postindex-bg.jpg) repeat-x scroll center top;
       	border:1px solid #636363;
       	float:left;
       	height:auto;
       	margin:0 6px 6px 0;
       	min-height:189px;
       	padding:0 8px;
       	width:316px;
       }
       ```
   
 * With:
 *     ```
       #content .postindex {
       	background:#DFDFDF url(images/postindex-bg.jpg) repeat-x scroll center top;
       	border:1px solid #636363;
       	margin:1px auto 20px;
       	padding:0 8px 20px;
       	width:90%;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mcdogs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcdogs/)
 * (@mcdogs)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042654)
 * Mate you are an absolute star, thank you so much.
 *  [bossbitch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bossbitch/)
 * (@bossbitch)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-editing-a-theme/#post-1042777)
 * I need help editing a theme. I’m new to this so I had someone set it up for me,
   now I wanna do some more to the site. I like the theme that I am in, I just want
   to play with the colors and change some things around. Please help me.

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