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If Adminimize doesn’t work, you could try CMS Post-Control, though it may not do exactly what you need it to do.

Design a theme with widgetized sections in the footer, or use a theme that has the same.

It won’t be in your page.php file. It will likely be in header.php, as stvwlf mentioned, if you have a horizontal navigation bar.

Pick through your header.php file and look for the section that appears to be the creation of the navigation bar. You’ll see a call to

<?php wp_list_pages(); ?>

. It is here that you’ll ADJUST this line. You shouldn’t be adding the line from scratch.

Also, the exclusion seems to only work by page ID, so using the page title will not result in an exclusion.

Here’s a handy plugin to list the page (and others) ID: Reveal IDs for WP Admin. Use this plugin if you are having trouble following stvwlf’s instructions to determine page ID.

I’m not sure I entirely grasp what functionality you’re aiming for. I’m not familiar with Buzzfeed.com.

If I understand correctly, you’re basically looking to allow users to submit their own content, which would possibly appear on a page on the site, and then have your own content featured on the primary page. Is this correct?

If this is what you’re looking for, you can achieve this with a combination of base WordPress functionality and plugins. You can allow registration on the site, force new users to a role that allows them to post their own content, create a category for user created content, and create a page for viewing the content.

You can then use plugins (a rather sizeable list of them, actually) for more refined restriction, like forcing a user to post in a certain category, restricting the capabilities of the user’s role, hiding the dashboard capabilities that you don’t want them to access, and finally for filtering site admin and user-submitted content to display on the appropriate page(s). (You might also have to make some limited code adjustments within your theme or some of the plugins.)

The end result, hopefully, would be the ability for registered users to submit their own content to display on your site exactly where you want it to display.

If this is not at all what you were looking for, sorry for wasting your time! Otherwise, come up with a good set of keywords and do some searching through the plugin directory and support forums for plugins that do what you need.

Did you fix your problem? I don’t see any >> before each link.

The way lists are styled is likely in your theme’s style.css file, which should be in your theme’s directory.

Here’s the way mine looks:

.sidebar ul {
margin: 0 0 0 15px;
padding : 0;
list-style : none;
}

.sidebar li {
list-style-type:disc;
}

.sidebar li ul li{
list-style-type:disc;
margin-left:20px;

This is the section of code that styles sidebar lists and sublists. You’ll want to adjust the list-style-type: option. If you don’t want any sort of marker in front of your lists, you’ll put list-style-type:none;.

Hope that helps.

The blog loaded extremely quickly for me, and I’m on IE6 and Windows XP with 1024×768 resolution and have never visited the blog. I can test on IE7 once I get home tonight.

If, like mine, your coding skills are nonexistent, you could accomplish this with plugins. I’m at work so I can’t get into my plugins folder to pull up the names, but there is at least one combination of plugins that could get the job done by hiding certain categories from the front page and then listing posts from a category on a separate page of your creation.

If I have time tonight I’ll reply to this post with the plugin names.

I would dig into your .php file that controls your archives page and see if you can pull some code from there and use it for your pages, since you’re looking for similar functionality.

I don’t have the expertise to give you a specific solution to your problem, but that’s what I would try to do.

Here’s a somewhat-related question.

In your theme’s directory there should be a style.css file. You’ll need to search through that for the section that styles your sidebar(s). It should hopefully be fairly apparent.

Here’s how mine looks:

.sidebar_left {
float: left;
width: 150px;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}

.sidebar_right {
float: right;
width: 150px;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
}

You would then adjust the width for each sidebar. Don’t make it drastic. View the page after each adjustment to determine if it’s viewing correctly and not screwing up the layout of the contents of the sidebars.

Good luck.

Glad you hopefully got it worked out. Funny thing, though. This weekend I tried my own website out on my girlfriends old laptop. It’s running IE6, I think, but for some reason my right sidebar just disappeared. As far as I can tell, same browser version and resolution as my work computer. Oh well.

Pretty confusing to me, as well. Can you try forcing your sidebar width to something a bit smaller, and I can test it again for you?

I’m not even sure that’s the issue, but it could be a sidebar width that’s just a bit too wide for IE6 @ 1024×768, for whatever reason.

Maybe try the Widget Logic plugin?

Check the Other Notes section on the plugin page to see examples of uses.

You can force a widget to only appear under certain contiditions, including only if certain Categories are used or if you’re on a certain page.

I guess this would only work if the “links” you’re speaking of are contained within a widget.

I’m on my work computer, using IE6 at 1024×768 screen resolution, and the sidebar is stuck below the content when I view your webpage.

Thanks. ??

Don’t know if this is the problem, but…I use IE7 at home, but IE6 (and a lower screen resolution) at work.

My sidebars showed up fine on my home comp. w/ IE7, but the sidebars wrapped to the bottom of the content at work.

The problem was that the content of one of my sidebar widgets was increasing the width of a sidebar div, and this caused the whole bar to wrap below.

So you might try adjusting your sidebar witdths. Just an idea.