editing widgets, customized sidebars for pages and other troubleshooting

Ok, i fixed problem number 2, the testpost that redirect incorrect.

here’s how I want that sidebar menu to look like at the albums and the project part, ie i want those sidebars to look like how the mainarea page looks like here:

https://gammis.se/?page_id=54

There is some elementar information you don’t mention. First at all – what template do you use? Are you doing your own custom template or re-design the default one?

Your “costume” menu widgets – do you mean custom widgets? What do you mean by that? You are making your own widgets? Or do you mean simple HTML widget, where you put your own HTML with styling? If you want to edit .css you just need to find the right style parts in your style.css in your template which you are using. For example, when i’m using default Twenty Twelve theme and i want to change color or size of h3 in sidebar – so my widget’s h3 i need to edit ‘.widget-title h3’ in my style.css. And how do i know what to looking for? Use Firebug in your browser, you can inspect the divs and classes on the fly.

For your page id, I would not worry about it, if you want you can read something about it here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_pages. But what you probably want to change is the link of your page, is that right? Default WP permalink setting is to show their ID in the link. If you want to change it for example to yourweb/category/post-title you shall go to Settings -> permalinks and chage default value to something else or your own custom value, where you just put /%category%/%postname%/ for showing category/post-title in your link.

And finally – your “work in progress” and “released albums” display by only a thumbnail. That is little bit difficult. It really depends on theme you are using and modify of the widget itself, or creatig your own. To say it short – you can’t make this without proper knowledge or widget or plug-in. You can try featured-category widget.

If you are new in WordPress and you want to make your custom templates and achive your custom functionality – i highly recommend to learn it from scratch. From design in PSD to static XHTML and then to WP template, all by hand. It will be a few weeks of learning at first it might seem complicated, but trust me – WordPress has a brilliant semantics, and once you learn the anatomy you will be surprised how easily you reach your goals.

Hi and thnx for the answer jabbo126.

Yes, im totally new to wordpress but have done some minor php in the past.

the misdirection of those links were just as you suggest the permalinks setting that i messed up. i figured it out myself (proud proud) but thnx anyway.

The theme I’m using is a edited one, i’ve renamed it and all so it wont get screwed when the mother-theme gets updated.

The custom-widgets seems a bit lacking for the things i want to do, so i’ve just med 4 different sidebars now and it works ok – but im not at all done with them. I use 4 different templates which uses one of the four different sidebars.

i will hack away with my page now, you can se the progression at gammis.se . theres much to do… thnx again for answers

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