Developing an already established theme

  • I would like to add a header, a horizontal navigation bar of some sort and modify the layout of the columns to this site: https://www.millionshares.com. Basically for the columns, I would like to move the main content area of a static page over to the left and encompassing the middle, leaving room for a sidebar on the right. Maybe I can make the option to have the reverse set up as well (sidebar on left).

    It is a bare bones theme, with hardly any options for adjustment through the wp-admin panel. I would like to try my hand at further developing what is already there so that I can create the modifications listed above.

    How should I get started on this?

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  • Thread Starter wrightj999

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    I think as far as layout goes, I’ve decided that it would be acceptable to remove one of what appears to be two sidebars that appear on every page, so that the main content area expands across the page in place of it. Strangely enough, when I went to the ‘widgets’ option to adjust what is on the sidebar, there is only one sidebar that has anything in it. I can’t seem to figure out where to remove the sidebar that is located in the middle and contains menu elements/widgets such as: tags, pages, meta and blog roll. hmm, very curious i can’t find where to get rid of these. do I need to make an adjustment to the sidebar.php?

    Thread Starter wrightj999

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    so i went ahead and answered my question about removal of the extra sidebar. Upon removing ‘extraneous’ sidebar (down to one sidebar) I found that the main content areas of the left did not expand to fill the space, but the remaining sidebar shifted to the left, leaving a gap to the right side of the page. So i’m figuring that maybe I can resize those areas through updating the associated css. I’m using firebug to try to pinpoint the code that needs to be changed but having trouble with that. can anyone offer me advice as to how to do this? maybe take a look at https://www.millionshares.com and see what you can figure out?

    Thread Starter wrightj999

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    update: I have figured out how to move the sidebar that shifted over to the left. I just had to change it’s css to float right. Now i just need to get the main content area to expand over and fill the gap. working on this, any insight would be nice ??

    Thread Starter wrightj999

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    so I’ve figured out how to make all these changes on my own with no help from the community here. I still have one dillema. maybe someone could advise? use https://www.millionshares.com for reference.

    I would like to stretch the main content area and the header and footer to be a bit wider to fill the gap on the left and right. these areas are using tiles images. Do I need to modify/resize the actual images and reload them into the theme directory? and then maybe fudge a little css code to make them line up again? advice would be much appreciated.

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