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Anyone have an ideas? Still haven’t figured this one out. 🙁

Sorry about that. Here’s a link to the code if anyone is able to help. thanks so much in advance!

http://www.auntiepea.com/ewd/sidebar.rtf

Okay, that’s definitely good to know. So, if I add a text widget and put html code in it to display say a flickr badge, the best way to put an image style title above the clickable badge would be to just add the html code to include the image with a <br> before the badge, right? I think I can use that solution for my text widgets easily enough.

My question then would be how would I use an image as a title above sidebar items like ‘categories’ or ‘archives’?

I found this section of code in the leftmenu.php:

<h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>

   <ul>

    	<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>

I changed the code and it now looks like this:

<img src="/images/categories.gif">

   <ul>

    	<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>

I included more than just the title portion in case it helps at all to show whether I’m in the right area of code to be making this change. The only portion changed was that first line. If you go to my blog you’ll see that it still shows the regular text title, not the image that I uploaded to use. What am I doing wrong? I uploaded the gif image title to the correct theme’s images folder on my ftp. It seems as though even if it were looking in the wrong place for that image that at the very least that change would make the actual text title disappear since the coding for that is no longer valid. I’m thoroughly confused. I was able to edit the style sheet for this theme without any trouble, expanded the columns back and forth till I had them just right, made other minor changes but this particular issue is completely eluding me.

Thanks again for all your help in advance. If I can get this figured out I will be absolutely ecstatic. I’ve spent an entire 2 days trying to find documentation to help with this with no luck. Plenty of instruction on what code to use but nothing to help me find WHERE to change that code.

Okay, I’m not sure how to PM so here’s what I’ve found. This is the code in the leftmenu.php file:

<!-- begin left-menu -->

<div id="left-menu">

<a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/header.gif" alt="logo" style="border: 0;" /></a>

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')

        || !dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e('Pages'); ?></h2>

   <ul>

     <?php wp_list_pages('depth=1&title_li='); ?>

   </ul>

<h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>

   <ul>

    	<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1&hierarchical=0'); ?>

   </ul>

<h2><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h2>

   <ul>

    	<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>

   </ul>

<h2><?php _e('Meta'); ?></h2>

   <ul>

	<?php wp_register(); ?>

	<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>

	<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>" class="feed"><?php _e('Entries <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a></li>

	<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate comments using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a></li>

	<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional"><?php _e('Valid'); ?> <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>

	<li><a href="http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/check/referer" title="This page has valid CSS"><?php _e('Valid'); ?> <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr></a></li>

        <?php wp_meta(); ?>

    </ul>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

<!-- end left-menu -->

I see wp_list_cats, is that where I would need to insert code to include an image before the list? And if so where exactly would you place the code for the image?

Also, categories is maybe not the best example for what I’m trying to do. I seem to at least be able to FIND coding that appears to be the area where I need to be working in for ‘categories’. The strange thing to me is how to find the area with coding for the text widgets that I’ve added. Like when I go to sidebar.php in the theme editor it still has code for items that I actually am not including for my blog but I don’t see anything that would indicate that I have a blogroll or 3 seperate text widgets that show up perfectly when you look at my blog.

I’m sure this is probably something that’s obvious to someone familiar with all the coding. I just wish I could find instructions somewhere. I just feel like I’m somehow missing a big chunk of the coding for my blog that I don’t have access to modify.