Lin171

As far as I know, I do have admin status…. How would I determine for sure?

you asked about other themes, but if I can’t change my theme isn’t that moot?

If I don’t have admin status, how would it be given to me? The person in charge of everything isn’t very tech savy, so I’m sure she’d do what I request but needs to know how. So how would I get the option to be able to change themes so I could do a childs theme?

Here is the main blog. They do not have sidebars on individual posts either it seems. https://blog.workndog.org/

I found that link on google, but it says I have to create a childs theme. As of right now, I do not have the ability to change my theme.

So, is this the only way to do it?

If so, how do I get the head blog to give me the ability to change theme? They’re not very tech savy so I need to explain to them how to do it if its possible.

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Also, if the themes template didn’t allow for a sidebar, how would I be able to have the main sidebar? Or is there a different entry in the themes php template for a main sidebar vs a sidebar that appears on individual blog posts?

To reiterate and clarify, I have a working sidebar that appears when you go to the site. However, when you are only viewing a single blog post the sidebar does not appear. How do I make a sidebar appear when viewing individual blog posts.

how do I do that?

twenty eleven. I don’t have the ability to change my theme, my blog is a fundraising blog given to me under the head charity’s main blog.

Since I also forgot my version, its 3.8.5 and here is the site: https://blog.workndog.org/lin/

Because this thread is about the html, and the html issue is over. It wasn’t exactly solved, but it was bypassed. Now I’m needing help with sidebars. Which was a topic in this thread, but the individual who brought it up hasn’t been back. So, to get help on sidebars, it makes sense to start a thread on sidebars.

If it would be better for me to start a new thread at this point, thats fine. This one could be closed/resolved. But previously when I started a different thread for a topic that originally came up under this one it was closed, so I don’t want to do the wrong thing.

For clarification, I added what I wanted to the main sidebar so it appears when just viewing the blog, but I don’t know how to make the sidebar appear when you’re only viewing one specific post. Once you click to view a single post, the sidebar disappears.

How do I add a sidebar with the paypal link to my current blog posts? I went to pages to see if I could change things the way you instructed me on creating a new page with the sidebar template. But all I see under pages is a sample page, not anything with my actual blog posts.

respectyoda, I DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO CHANGE OR CREATE A THEME.

My blog is a blog given to me off a main blog. I do not have the ability to change/install themes. So if I created a childs theme, it would be worthless to me because I could not use it. We’ve been trying to explain that.

WPYogi, hope you’ll help me out with what you were talking about with sidebars still?

Well that didn’t work. He changed the code to a basic a href tag link.

Well, problem “sort of” solved. My boyfriend altered the code for the button to get it accepted. Still have no idea of course why html isn’t working, not so helpful for others in the same position, the problem may pop up again, but I’ve got my button!

Here’s what he changed it to so it would appear:

<img src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif&#8221; border=”0″ alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!” />

But, now I’m interested in the sidebar thing. How would I add the button to appear on the sidebar of the posts I’ve already done?

Ok, so I figured out what you were saying. To test, I went to add a new page, and was able to follow your directions. So, I guess disregard my previous post. As I said before my brain is pretty fried by the time I’m able to start working on this stuff, even more so today after the day I had.

But…. The exact same thing happens. I drag and drop the text into the main sidebar. I insert the code for the button into it. I click save, and the code changes before my eyes.

Started with (again)
<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post” target=”_top”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_s-xclick”>
<input type=”hidden” name=”hosted_button_id” value=”NTS37CVLLJ72Q”>
<input type=”image” src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif&#8221; border=”0″ name=”submit” alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!”>
<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>

And before my eyes, changes to:
<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post” target=”_top”>

<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″>
</form>