How to change layout – Esmi / RVoodoo?

well, changing themes is very easy, just so ya know

from your admin area, in the appearance tab, you just go to change theme….then you can browse themes, test drive em, etc. Find one you like, install and activate it. If ya don’t like it, just switch back. If you find a theme you like that is not in the wordpress repository, you can use the upload feature to install it. It really is user friendly…

that being said, lemme peep at your site, see if I have any input on your question

(Edit-I can’t look at the comparison blog from my work…must have some questionable content/language…..my works internet big brother rejects the site)

https://www.seanjohn.com and select lifestyle
or: https://www.theybf.com is another site that scrolls.

I’m afraid to download a new theme and then lose everything i did with this one. lol.

downloading a new theme, means getting a new zip file and doing something with that right? where would i save that new zip file? and if this doesn’t work out and I want the old theme back, how do I do that? The old theme files are saved with the developer who seems to be in hiding right now.

Can I just edit my current theme info?

well, if you have the zip file with the new theme you just go in your admin area to:
appearance->add new themes
from there you select upload which will then allow you to browse to the zip file.

Once the file is uploaded you can activate it.

To switch between themes, you just go to
appearance->themes
and activate the one you want to try.

It’s always a good idea to have a backup of your custom theme (you should have one anyway, in case something happens to your server)

switching between themes shouldn’t ever cause you to lose something, but its always best to be safe.

The thing is, changing up your current theme to do what you want isn’t going to be a real simple thing…..it’s going to be quite a bit of redoing…..

Ok thanks RVoodoo!
I’m searching for a new theme now.
In the meantime I have one last annoying question. If I do keep my current theme, if you look at my page https://www.dominicanstylesalon.com/blog you’ll see that I have 3 sections on the left column but next to the bottom section labeled Star Gazing, there is a blank space. I want to put the ‘SPECIALS’ section there but I can’t get it there. The specials section for some reason shows up in the right column. I don’t know if it’s something the developer originally did but it’s erking me. When I look at the original layout of the theme https://www.premiumwp.com/demo/thestars/ it shows the 4 different sections in the left column. Can you help me figure out how to fix this please?

Here is my sidebar template:
https://wordpress.pastebin.ca/1715893

I’m not sure where to find the other side of the page.
The templates I have taht may relate to it are:
404 Template
Category Template
Main Index Template
Page Template
Single Post

I tried just removing this section from the sidebar but it wipes everything out:

<li id=”asides”>
<h3 class=”widget-title”><?php _e( ‘Specials’, ‘wpbx’ ); ?></h3>
<?php $asides = new WP_Query(“cat=$aside_cat&showposts=$aside_number”); while($asides->have_posts()) : $asides->the_post(); ?>
<div class=”entry-block clearfix”>
<?php
$aside_preview = get_post_custom_values(“entry-preview”);
if ( is_array($aside_preview) ) { ?>
<img class=”entry-image block-image” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/scripts/timthumb.php?src=<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘entry-preview’,true) ?>&w=75&h=65&zc=1″ alt=”<?php the_title(); ?>” />
<?php } else { ?>
<img class=”entry-image block-image” src=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_directory’); ?>/images/image-blank-small.jpg” alt=”<?php the_title(); ?>” />
<?php } ?>

help?

I right clicked on the Demo page to ‘View Source’ so I could see the difference & saw that there is a <!– Loop: 4 –>
How / Where can I add that in the Theme Editor? I’ve been searching each template but I can’t find it. Help please?

Sorry, I just can’t be sure. I tried to download a frsh copy of that theme to check it out…..but its not available anymore…

Yeh. they only have the pro version now ??
When I right click and select ‘View Source’ – how do you edit that part?

you don’t…per se

that is a combination of your template files (header.php, sidebar.php, index.php, footer.php) along with any code generated by plugins, and the output of any php, etc run in your files

So, you need to figure out where the code is coming from to edit it

ohhhh.. sounds complicated. lol.
I’ve checked all the php templates but can’t seem to find it anywhere. was only able to see it in the source… I’ll keep looking

if I had to guess…it’d be index.php

I see that the Demo page has 4 loops, and I only see 3 on yours….

looks like you are missing some code.

Do you have the original unaltered theme you downloaded?

The developer downloaded it but is currently MIA. She said she saved all the files on my ftp site (which I can’t access from work) so I will check it out tonight. Hopefully there’s something there

This is my index.php info:
<?php get_header() ?>

<div id=”wrapper”>
<div id=”content”>

<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post() ?>

<div id=”post-<?php the_ID() ?>” class=”clearfix <?php wpbx_post_class() ?>”>

<div class=”entry-meta”>
<span class=”entry-date”><?php unset($previousday); printf( __( ‘%1$s’, ‘wpbx’ ), the_date( ‘D, M j Y’, ”, ”, false ) ) ?></span>
</div>

<h2 class=”entry-title”>” title=”<?php printf( __(‘Permalink to %s’, ‘wpbx’), the_title_attribute(‘echo=0’) ) ?>” rel=”bookmark”><?php the_title() ?></h2>

<div class=”entry-content clearfix”>
<?php the_content( __( ‘ ‘, ‘wpbx’ ) ) ?>
</div>

<div class=”entry-meta”>
<span class=”entry-comm”><?php comments_popup_link( __( ‘No Comments’, ‘wpbx’ ), __( ‘1 Comment’, ‘wpbx’ ), __( ‘% Comments’, ‘wpbx’ ) ) ?></span>
<span class=”entry-meta-sep”>|</span>
<span class=”entry-more”>” title=”<?php printf(__(‘Continue reading %s’), wp_specialchars(get_the_title(), 1)) ?>”><?php _e( ‘Read More »’, ‘wpbx’ ) ?></span>
</div>
</div><!– .post –>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<div class=”navigation clearfix”>
<div class=”nav-previous”><?php next_posts_link(__( ‘Previous <span class=”meta-nav”>Articles</span>’, ‘wpbx’ )) ?></div>
<div class=”nav-next”><?php previous_posts_link(__( ‘Next <span class=”meta-nav”>Articles</span>’, ‘wpbx’ )) ?></div>
</div>

</div><!– #content –>
</div><!– #wrapper –>

<?php get_sidebar() ?>
<?php get_footer() ?>

I figured it out. It was in the home.php file.

Thank You so much for all your help