lance007

Hi Cais,

I just copied and pasted that line in and it did not do anything. Nothing changed as far as I can see.

Any other suggestions?

Lance

Hi,

apljdi – I did not modify the default “recent posts” widget – just using it as is.

cais – Thanks but your suggestion copied below did not do anything:

it appears you can take that little snippet of CSS posted above and ...

   1. Go to the theme options page
   2. Near the bottom click on "Add HTML/CSS inserts"
   3. Go to the bottom of that option page for "CSS Inserts"
   4. Add: div#recent-posts-3 div.widget ul li {margin-bottom: 10px;}
   5. Click on the HUGE Save Changes button

Hey guys,

Thanks a lot for your help. I am going to try this and will let you know if it works. Sorry for the late response.
If you can, check back in a couple days.

Thanks

Lance

I tried adding the code you gave me to the style sheet and it didn’t do anything.
I’m using the Atahualpa theme that has a lot of options and areas to fill in styling code for the various areas of the blog.
For example there are options to fill in code in:
“Body style, Text & Links”
“Style and Configure Sidebars” -> “Right Sidebar style”
“Style Widgets” -> “Widget content Box”

I tried a few of them and when that didn’t work I just went to “editor” for the style.css file. still didn’t work.
Any other suggestions?

or should the code go into the “css.php” file?

Thanks

Hi again Dave,

Just wondering. Is there a way to alternate the text or background color of each post in the “recent post” widget on the right sidebar to distinguish the posts even further?

thanks

Lance

Thanks a lot Dave

Thanks Dave,
Where in the stylesheet do I add it?
What does the “3 ul li” mean?

thanks

Lance

Thanks

ok thanks

In this theme I can adjust the width of the sidebars. I highly doubt that’s the issue.

no – yahoo.
and p.s. – I thought wordpress was supposed to be for dummies. I must really be extra stupid

I don’t even know why the backticks I put in for the code in the post above didn’t work – what the hell is going on here.

I think I figured out what was happening, but I don’t know why exactly.

I tried starting my whole blog over again – scrapped the last one completely – signed up for a new wordpress account and started with a completely new theme – Atahualpa. And exactly the same thing happened. Everything seemed to be going ok until I started installing text widgets in the sidebar. After I had installed them on the left and right sidebar my pages other than my home page got all screwed up again – the sidebars were sitting below the text and the text was in one of the sidebars. The right sidebar spanned from the center column all the way to the right sidebar.

I looked at https://www.validator.w3.org to see whether my site: https://www.Lancesview.com would validate. And it did not. There were tons of errors. Most of them were related to a “&” symbol being wrong. I used it in my postings and meta tags and supposedly that was causing some of the issues.
The validator also said that I had improper code in my text boxes: I had links to amazon for some books I was recommending and apparently whatever I did, it did not like. It worked when I clicked on the links so I don’t understand.
I had something like this in the text widget:

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.ca/Atlas-Shrugged-Leonard-Peikoff/dp/0452011876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1252792056&sr=8-1-spell>Atlas Shrugged</a>

I also had some links in my postings which the validator did not seem to like. Something like:

<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.

and:

<a target="_blank" href="https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3669">Products Compatible with Snow Leopard.</a>

and:

`Canon drivers.‘

I do not understand how all these things could screw up my blog so badly. What am I doing wrong?
Please help me. I have spent about 30 hours over the past few days trying to fix my blog and I have no idea what I’m doing. It shouldn’t be this difficult on wordpress!

Thanks

Lance

That’s weird I tried to put the code between backticks but it didn’t work:

<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.ca/Atlas-Shrugged-Leonard-Peikoff/dp/0452011876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1252792056&sr=8-1-spell>Atlas Shrugged</a>


<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.


<a target="_blank" href="https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3669">Products Compatible with Snow Leopard.</a>


`Canon drivers.'


Kawauso,

I think I figured out what was happening, but I don’t know why exactly.

I tried starting my whole blog over again – scrapped the last one completely – signed up for a new wordpress account and started with a completely new theme – Atahualpa. And exactly the same thing happened. Everything seemed to be going ok until I started installing text widgets in the sidebar. After I had installed them on the left and right sidebar my pages other than my home page got all screwed up again – the sidebars were sitting below the text and the text was in one of the sidebars. The right sidebar spanned from the center column all the way to the right sidebar.

I looked at https://www.validator.w3.org to see whether my site: https://www.Lancesview.com would validate. And it did not. There were tons of errors. Most of them were related to a “&” symbol being wrong. I used it in my postings and meta tags and supposedly that was causing some of the issues.
The validator also said that I had improper code in my text boxes: I had links to amazon for some books I was recommending and apparently whatever I did, it did not like. It worked when I clicked on the links so I don’t understand.
I had something like this in the text widget:
<a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.ca/Atlas-Shrugged-Leonard-Peikoff/dp/0452011876/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1252792056&sr=8-1-spell>Atlas Shrugged</a>

I also had some links in my postings which the validator did not seem to like. Something like:
<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.
and:
<a target="_blank" href="https://support.apple.com/kb/ht3669">Products Compatible with Snow Leopard.</a>
and:
`Canon drivers.‘

I do not understand how all these things could screw up my blog so badly. What am I doing wrong?
Please help me. I have spent about 30 hours over the past few days trying to fix my blog and I have no idea what I’m doing. It shouldn’t be this difficult on wordpress!

Thanks

Lance

Hey,

someone on my other thread posted this as a possible cause – do you think it has any merit? I have 6 <div> and 9 </div> in my comments.php.:

I think the failure is in 'comments.php'.
there is one closing </div> too many - I just can't be bothered to find out which one.
you need to go through it div by div and find the excessive one.