widget help

  • Hey folks. I’ve been playing around with the widget locations and some appear to be working and some dont. For example, the subsidiary columns and after header columns seem to work fine. The widgets show up in the appropriate place when I try those.

    When I try to use the primary and secondary locations, they are not displayed. Does anyone know why this might be happening? They are currently enabled, so take a look.

    https://drjohnkiel.com/wp/

    Thanks,
    John

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  • I’m not familiar with that theme, but it looks like maybe you have a full-width template on that page?

    Thread Starter drjkiel

    (@drjkiel)

    What does full width mean? It’s the width of the page?

    The yellow space on the sides is “dead space” that cant be used?

    The yellow space is outside the usable space, yes. That theme has a defined width of 920px here:

    #container {
    background: url("images/bg-main.jpg") repeat-y scroll 0 0 #1C1C1C;
    color: #CCCCCC;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 920px;
}

    What do you have under Theme Settings > Layout (right column) for Global layout?

    Thread Starter drjkiel

    (@drjkiel)

    Ok, good call. I changed the global layout to layout_2c_r. you’ve been super helpful so thanks

    I do have another question. If I wanted to narrow the width of the primary/secondary sidebar and subsequently expand the main area where the blog posts display, how would I do that?

    It looks like it’s not going to be easy to do that – layout often isn’t easy to mess with – and in this case, though you can possibly change these (add to style.css in the child theme)

    #content {
    width: 700px;
}

#sidebar-primary {
    width: 220px;
}

    But the background image won’t look right… it’s not made for those dimensions.

    Thread Starter drjkiel

    (@drjkiel)

    Ok, so I did that and I see what your’e saying. Can I just open the background up in an image editor and adjust the vertical line and re-upload iT?

    Sure, that’s certainly possible. But do make sure that changing those widths doesn’t have any other unintended affects – layouts can be tricky that way.

    Thread Starter drjkiel

    (@drjkiel)

    Any help figuring out which file that vertical line is named?

    Looks like all of those are in a file called images –

    images/bg-layout-2c-r.png

    But you’ll need to make sure you get the correct one(s) – it looks like they are layout specific.

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