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  • Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: Changing size and position of sidebar
    Thread Starter teddywade

    (@teddywade)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    In the month since posting question, I’ve tried many things, including something that broke my site. I replaced the style.css file from parent theme to child theme and changed functions.php to functions.bak to access my wp-admin again.
    Just now changed widths in “content” section of style.css FROM THIS:

    #primary {
    float: right;
    width: 66.6666%;
}

#secondary {
    float: left;
    width: 33.3333%;
	padding-right: 60px;

    TO THIS:

    #primary {
    float: right;
    width: 85%;
}

#secondary {
    float: left;
    width: 15%;
	padding-right: 0px;

    Finally, the widths of the content area and the sidebar changed. But… the banner ads in the sidebar shrunk. I’m using “Custom Sidebars” plugin for the sidebar. How (where) do I make change to get image in sidebar (banner ad) fill the whole width of the sidebar space?
    Page Link:

    Plan is to have the orange box with social media icons above the right sidebar and aligned with the boxes in same row at at left. How do I do this? Currently there are two problems as shown in link: I don’t know how to put social media icons on an orange box image so I used a background color, but it changes lengths randomly, pushing text below it down, and I can’t get it to appear above the sidebar. Even if I take the orange social media box out of row with other images and put it at top of sidebar, I can’t figure out how to put text and social icons on the orange box.

    Help please.

    Thanks,

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: can't access my wp-admin page
    Thread Starter teddywade

    (@teddywade)

    10 years, 7 months ago

    Thank you very much. I can now access wp-admin! After I fix problem, am I to change it back to functions.php with the FTP?

    Most of the junk at the top of couponsforfun2.com is gone now, except for “Skip to Content”. Any ideas on getting rid of that?

    My problem with junk at top and losing wp-admin started when I made change below. It’s now back to the original. Any ideas on where to change the size and position of the theme’s sidebar since what I did below didn’t work, and caused other problems?

    ORIGINAL:
    /* =18. Widgets
    ————————————————————– */

    .widget-area a {
    color: #82888a;
    text-decoration: none;
    }

    /* === Template with Right Sidebar === */
    .content-area.left{
    float: left!important;
    }
    .widget-area.right{
    float: right!important;
    }

    CHANGED TO THIS:
    /* =18. Widgets
    ————————————————————– */

    .widget-area a {
    color: #82888a;
    text-decoration: none;
    }

    /* === Template with Right Sidebar === */
    .content-area.left{
    float: left!important;
    width:810px;
    }
    .widget-area.right{
    float: right!important;
    width:125px;
    }

    Which section in the theme’s index below should I look for the place to adjust the position and size of sidebar:
    01. CSS Reset (Normalize)
    02. Theme Base
    03. Clearfix
    04. Global margins and paddings
    05. Text-level semantics
    06. Headings
    07. Forms
    08. Buttons
    09. Tables
    10. Links
    11. Header area
    12. Layout
    13. Menus
    14. Icons (separate folder)
    15. Accessibility
    16. Embedded content
    17. WordPress core styles
    18. Widgets
    19. Content
    20. Asides
    21. Comments
    22. Infinite scroll (Jetpack plugin)
    23. Footer
    24. Plugins
    25. Responsive design
    26. Print styles

    Or should I use a sidebar plugin and forget about the theme’s primary and secondary sidebars?

    Thanks

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