Jared Atchison

Add this to your style.css

strong {
  font-weight: bold;
}
em {
  font-style: italic;
}

Some how your floats are not getting cleared (it looks like) and it’s throwing everything off.

Open up your footer.php.

Find where it says <div id=”footer”> and add this on the line *before* it:

<div style="clear:both"></div>

What’s your URL?

Yeah your footer css is not being read due to what I posted. Remove it from your style.css and it should start working.

Ok first off the first form is a CONTACT form, not a comment form. You have that mislabed.

And why are you including a contact from in a post?…

Secondly an observation, the fact that I have to enter my twitter username and password to retweet something? um no.

So you have a working mislabeled contact form and comments, other than some theme mixups I’m not sure what isn’t working?

I’m confused as to why you have 2 comment forms….

https://davedwilliamson.com/?p=1260

Well you will want to use the_excerpt for the post bodies.

I’d use a plugin like https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/ to help get that how you wanted.

So for the first post you would use the_excerpt() then on the following if you want a shorter body you will have to trim the_excerpt, like:

<?php $len = 90; //Number of words to display in excerpt
					$newExcerpt = substr($post->post_excerpt, 0, $len); //truncate excerpt according to $len
					if(strlen($newExcerpt) < strlen($post->post_excerpt)) { $newExcerpt = $newExcerpt." &raquo;"; }
					echo "<p>". $newExcerpt."</p>"; //finally display excerpt ?>

You’ll need to do that by changing the CSS in the style.css (inside your theme folder)

Something along the lines of

#sidebar ul li {
 border-bottomn: 1px solid #ccc;
 margin: 0 0 20px 0;
}

Ok after looking at the source behind the base these https://www.freecsstemplates.org/templates/previews/swanky/ there is no CSS in place that supports drop downs.

What is happening in your theme is just a result of sub list items getting displayed.

So your options are either to turn off displaying sub pages (via depth), see https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

Or do some other wizardry to add drop down support yourself – but I looked at the CSS and there is no support in that template.

What is your URL, I can see if I can find out what’s wrong…..

Check the css in your style.css.

It’s most likely something in there. For example the strong attribute could have been reset and might need to be redefined.

Actually, that was my mistake, after 2.0 it’s not supposed to be an issue if you use domain.com/%postname%/

The problems arise when you structure things domain.com/%category%/%postname%/

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

Sorry for the mistake ??

I only see one column currently on the site…

It’s a theme issue, but a simple fix.

Many themes do not have support for comments on the pages.

In your page.php (in your theme directory) you will need to add

<?php comments_template(); ?>

Open up single.php and page.php and look at the differences – you will see ??

if that paragraph has the right css it should do that, assuming I understood that correctly ??

You will need to make sure that paragraph has p text-align: justify; assigned to it.

The image will need to be floating to the left as well.