Widget Area Issues S.O.S!

If that is the case, it sounds like you don’t want to actually go to another page, you just want to get content for the main content area dynamically.

Possibly that could be the case.

Surely though it must be possibly to set the secondary widget are so that it simply just doesn’t refresh.

Wouldn’t things quickly get complicated by retrieving the main content area dynamically as this would also involve commenting etc.

If you go to another page, it refreshes the whole page. If you don’t want to refresh then you are really pulling in content into some containers.

And yes, it would get complex quickly.

There must be someway to deactivate refresh on the widget area as I could understand that when using the browser to go forwards and backwards through pages it would refresh the whole page but when using the navigation on the site itself then surely there is no need to refresh the widget area aswell as this would only increase loading time and also make using plug-ins such as soundcloud is gold pretty much redundant if every time you want to leave a comment the music stops!

Have you asked on the plugin’s own forum?

https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/soundcloud-is-gold

No I haven’t as the question is only loosely related to the plug-in.The question itself is whether or not it is possible to NOT have the widget sidebar refresh when navigating around the site.

After searching the plug-ins own forum,this is the answer I found regarding this query:

“For the player, that’s not something that can be done by the plugin,
it’s something you have to do with your theme.’

Yes, it would be something that would be with the theme it’s just that the hope was that a plugin like that would most likely see requests for something like this.

The issue your describing would have to be with the theme and there lies your answer: it’s the theme code so if you want something like that it would have to be built into the theme but it is not default behavior by WordPress. That is not something that some people may want. If you do not have a change in url, then how do you bookmark a page with content since it is all the same page? Again, I’m just pointing out a few things but there can be some downside to that kind of functionality.

I understand that.However I thought it would be possible like it is for any other website to not have the secondary DIV refresh?So yes the URL would still change for the relevant page but the Widget Area would simply not refresh along with the content in the Primary DIV.

I’m not aware of that and I would say most websites do not do that but that is neither here nor there.

If you are going to a new page then it is reloading all the content. Maybe someone else can shed some more light on it.

I think you have to use an iframe to do that – which, as mentioned already, isn’t great in other ways.

So is the crux of this that it’s not really going to be possible without a hell of a lot of messing around?

I really thought it would be relatively easy to implement.

Anyone have any idea on how to answer the first part of my question.How to get the widget area to stretch all the way down to the footer?

So is the crux of this that it’s not really going to be possible without a hell of a lot of messing around?

Yes, so far as I know.

The other question would take quite a lot of coding as well – definitely should done using a child theme…https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Hi.

Yes I have all ready created an extensively customised childtheme including code to include it as a theme option within the dashboards theme settings.

I just can’t figure out why I can’t get it to ‘stretch’.I’ve tried setting the secondary’s height values to auto,100% but still no dice.

Might not be possible using just CSS, but a link to your site would be helpful.