gracewing

Thanks Yogi, I figured it was something like that but wasn’t sure which particular parameter needed to change.

I have played around with various parameters in the style.php and now have the side bar displayed alongside the featured articles and the slide show itself full width.

I don’t seem to be able to give the sidebar a background with out messing it up on the other pages.

I can give it a plain grey background, which will colour it on the blog page but I can’t get the feature background and the blog background to meet. If I make column-content any wider then the side bar moves below.

Likewise if I make the side bar width larger, then the sidebar moves to the bottom on the blog and other pages.

Any further suggestions?

It seems that I did get the side bar to appear by adding that line to the tpl_blog.php file.

It appears at the bottom of the page below the standard blog bits. Now I just have to make it appear on the right. I am hoping this is just a matter of make the elements of the blog narrow enough for it to fit.

Thursy

You say you removed code from the main index template- What is the file name and what folder is it in.

I’ve tried searching for “latest-posts” in my public_html files and can’t find it.

I actually made my page width bigger using the following method.

I edited the images in the wp-Creativix/images directory and made them all 100 pixels wider.

These are the png files center-column,sub-top etc.

Copy the images folder to your PC, then create wide version of these files in a separate directory. You will have to copy them back after a them update.

You also need to edit style.php in the wp-Creativix directory.

Again I saved this in anotehr directory to copy back after an update.

The changes are mostly adding 100 to the width parameter for different components. There are quite a lot of them.

eg change

#wrapper {
width:925px;
margin:0 auto;
}

to

#wrapper {
width:1025px;
margin:0 auto;
}

I can send you the files if you like.

Hi Eran

I didn’t find that bit of info but thanks for pointing it out.

It seems that those plugins must be changing some field in the user table. I have used other plug ins where there is a setting that says something like

Minimum role level to …. with a drop down.

Is it possible to add some thing like that to AEC. This seems to have been the biggest stumbling block to getting started.

I have one other issue which I have posted separately but I’ll repeat hear since you hopefully will see this reply:

In the front end the width of the Sunday column is smaller than the others. mensa.org.au/calendar

It was even smaller before I managed to widen the whole page by 100 pixels.

Great plug in all the same.

I eventually worked out, like others before me that you need to install another plugin.

However many threads just stop there and don’t really explain for the next one what to do. Do here’s what I did, after a lot of false starts.

Download, install and activate the User Role Editor

https://shinephp.com/user-role-editor-wordpress-plugin/

This adds an extra item under the USERS tab in Dash Board.

When you run that option you can select a role (in my case Editor) or create a new one.

This gives you 2 sets of check boxes, Core Capabilities and Custom Capabilities.

The Calendar ones are in the custom list and start with “aec_”

Check aec_addevents to allow a role to add vents and edit their own events but not otners.

Check aec_manageevents to allow a role to edit events added by others.

It seems that I can create a login for a user with role of calendar contributor, but this role does not have the normal editor privileges.

How can I add calendar privileges to an editor or create a role that combines the 2.