jbickers

OK, I’m an idiot. (I’m also a guy working on multiple sites at once, and not defragging his brain properly.) The site I’m asking this for is actually based on Twenty Thirteen. So I’ll try re-asking it in that forum.

Thank you for your patience and help! Sorry for the derail.

Thanks esmi … I am indeed using a custom CSS plugin, and making a point not to touch anything under the hood.

Thank you for this, but it doesn’t do what I’m looking for … looking for that line to go just to the left of the sidebar, as a divider between the main content and the sidebar. I guess I need to play with sidebar-content?

Actually, that worked UNTIL I used the “Customize” link under “Appearance” to change the color of the sidebar and menu background … now it’s popped the background color back under the sidematter notes. Any ideas on how to circumvent that?

Thank you … that did the trick!

Oh duh … the sidebar widget … somehow I missed that step in the install. Thank you!

You’re kind to offer – the category is 7, and we want to get rid of everything before 1/1/10.

(Also, if you could tell me where in phpmyadmin to go to execute it, that’d be helpful – I have access but am unfamiliar with the interface.)

Alan and Soukie, thanks so much – got it working.

One final question: The player displays on the iPad, but strangely, floating over the post text near the bottom. Any ideas what might cause that, or how to fix? (Example of what it’s doing here: https://bit.ly/9e4VZk)

I’m not sure I understand … there’s no place in the admin to specify sub-tag. And the drop-down for Format (in the Podcasting plugin) only has one choice – “Default format”.

Sure, this post contains a sample, and it will not display properly on our iPad:

https://www.wuol.org/2010/04/14/u-of-l-opera-theatre/

Thanks for the help!

Found it … it’s in wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php

Crap. Forgot the code tag. Here’s the whole thing:

<a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>"><?php comments_number('Leave a comment','One comment','% comments'); ?></a>

FYI, I’m having the exact same issue on one of my sites – and it’s definitely not what ronchicago suggests, as it does the same thing on three different computers (two XP, one Mac), including my home computer.

There’s a quick-and-dirty way to fix this, but it’ll require you to know which ID corresponds to which of your categories (which you should be able to reason out by looking at your site).

First, create a new temporary category. This seems to “un-stuck” the works. (Yes, that’s the technical term.) You can then immediately delete it.

Then, use direct URL addressing to get to the edit screen for each of the categories. For instance:

yoursite.com/wp-admin/categories.php?action=edit&cat_ID=XXX

… where XXX is the ID of the category. That’ll take you to a screen where you can re-enter title, slug and description. Repeat with each category.

It’s clearly a situation that isn’t being handled as well as it could, and the advice here is much appreciated and will be acted upon. Thanks, all.