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I have used the sidebar widget and added in the ‘text’ field, rather than changing the sidebar.php in my desktop editor.

any ideas folks ? I can find reference to sidebar posts, categories etc but I don’t have any of that….

Cheers !

Ok so its related to the theme I am using ?

Sorry I am designing the site for someone else who simple doesn’t know html, css etc, how do people use WP as a Blog or website control the textual layout of the page like you do in Word etc without coding knowledged?

I am a little confused and frankly disappointed, why can’t you just press return and theres a space ?

WP doesn’t seem to be quite as easy as it says.

Ash

Ok that worked for me atleast but for the girl I’m making the site for who doesn’t know html there is going to a problem.

Is there a way around this maybe a plugin ?

I appears that this ‘visual’ editors is a problem to many people, the version I am using is 2.5.1 has this problem been dealt with with newer versions ?

Anyone !!

Thanks

Ash

Are is it something to do with the ‘Use the visual editor when writing’ option in the ‘User’ profile area ?

The return does work as with most computer based programs until the page is saved then I visit the actual page and its been lost ?

Then when you go back to the edit page it not as saved any more either.

Basically if I add text or other tags like say li etc it saves fine, but paragraphs, returns, p, br etc no ?

Strange.

The Html code.

If you can’t add in p’s and br’s etc how can a novice actually update pages and so on ? Everything will be bunched up with no spacing and [returns] paragraphs.

‘I’ can do this with css tab but how is the person I’m create the site for meant to do this ?

Sorry just to be clear when I add a br/ in the HTML editor it will not do anything ?

Regards

Ashley

Only asked again because no one was bothering to help. So apparently you need to keep asking to get peoples attention.

I code in CSS all the time, its just I structure slightly differently to WP and anyway it all differs from theme to theme. The site is kind of a mixture of a couple of other themes and my own twist, this maybe where the issue lies ?

I am a web designer, and I have been looking at ‘my css’ for most of the day, believe me its not that obvious:

#navigation li a:hover,
#navigation li a:active
{
color: #FFFFFF;
background-repeat: repeat-x;
margin-top: 0px;
border: 1px solid ccc;
background-image: url(images/nav-buttonbg.gif);
}

That exactly what it is already, what are you on about ?

Thanks anyway for both your advice, neith sorted out the problem I’m afraid.

Ashley

Ok done it but still have the Gap ?

Must be in the sizing of the css, but I just can’t see it !

I tried it the same as I would in a html page but it doesn’t seem to work ?

something along the lines of:

<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0&#8243; width=”768″ height=”200″ id=”flashbanner” align=”middle”>
<param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”sameDomain” />
<param name=”movie” value=”flashbanner.swf” /><param name=”quality” value=”high” /><param name=”bgcolor” value=”#ffffff” /><embed src=”flashbanner.swf” quality=”high” bgcolor=”#ffffff” width=”768″ height=”200″ name=”flashbanner” align=”middle” allowScriptAccess=”sameDomain” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&#8221; />
</object>

?

I tried something similar it just completely messed up the page, i.e. the flash movie was put on top of everything at the very top of the page. I pressum it therefore took it out of the <div id=”navigation”> tag for some reason.

Thanks for the try. Any other ideas ?

Interestingly the gap in IE7 is actually quite small maybe 12px but in FF its more like 35px, maybe this is a clue.

Seriously any ideas howver silly may help.

Ashley

Do people just not know or it this a really silly question and I am missing something very obvious ?

I don’t mind being told I’ve been a numb nut, I just need to know the answer if anyone could take the time to help.

Thanks

Ashley

You would set that when creating the Flash movie. When you set the publish setting or actually as an action in the movie itself. i.e ‘stop’ action

Hope that helps.

Ashley

Ok I’ve got rid of <div id=”flash”> That was used as I was oringinally trying to get the movie to work and is now obsolete.

It is now:

<div id=”navigation”>

<?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1&title_li=’); ?>

[kml_flashembed movie=”https://acknowledgedwebtest.info/selina/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/flashbanner.swf&#8221; height=”200″ width=”768″ /]

</div>

From the header.php end atleast.

so why the space ?

Ashley

Yes web designer but this is my first go at WP.

in the header.php all I see is:

<div id=”navigation”>

<?php wp_list_pages(‘depth=1&title_li=’); ?>

<div id=”flash”> [kml_flashembed movie=”https://acknowledgedwebtest.info/selina/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/flashbanner.swf&#8221; height=”200″ width=”768″ /] </div>

</div>

Don’t see how I can tidy that up ?

Thanks

Ashley

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