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  • Thread Starter matmochdre

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    Sorry I don’t quite understand the answer. Can you explain that a little.

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    Yes I thought that was what happend. I’ll be in touch via e-mail. Thanks again. Mat

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    Hallo,

    Still trying to work out how to fix the code. Tim is it possible that you could explain the problems I brought up in the post that is 4 places above this one? The one with the all code in it.

    Also I’m still interested to find out if there are coders connected to this forum that can be paid to fix the problem.

    Thanks, Mat

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    Sorry. Got it now. I did move the menu into the body. Still lost on the other points though.

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    Sorry? I’m confused by the last post. What was it addressed to?

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    So I have looked at what you suggested Tim and again I”m at a loss.

    I have found the mistakes that you highlighted however the code on the published page looks very different to what I am seing when I open the page in Dreamweaver.

    For example the menu list in the publised page looks like this:

    <div id=”meniu”>

    • <li class=”cat-item cat-item-9″>Artwork

      • <li class=”cat-item cat-item-7″>Canvas

      <li class=”cat-item cat-item-11 current-cat”>Inspiration

      <li class=”cat-item cat-item-8″>Paste ups

      <li class=”cat-item cat-item-3″>Spray

      <li class=”cat-item cat-item-5″>Stickers

      <li class=”cat-item cat-item-6″>T-Shirts

      <li class=”page_item page-item-2″>In the Beginning
      <li class=”page_item page-item-15″>The second coming

    </div>

    When I open header.php it looks like this:

    <div id=”meniu”>

    • <?php wp_list_categories(‘hide_empty=0&title_li=’ . __(”) . ” ); ?><?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=’ ); ?>

    </div>

    I can’t seem to see the extra list item in the code above. If it’s there I apologise, but like I’ve said my knowledge of coding is very basic.

    It’s the same with the p#top tags: On the site it looks like:

    <p id=”top” />This is another test.</p>

    In single.php I think I found what generates that bit of code and it looks like this:

    <?php the_content(‘<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this entry »</p>’); ?>

    So if anything this confirms what I said above. I’m totally out of my depth. The only solution that I can come up with that I feel capable of doing is to remove the sidebar from this page.

    The other alternative that I have is to pay a coder to sort the page out. Is there a pool of coders somehow connected to this forum. Tim would you be interested in doing this?

    Thanks once more for your patience and help.

    Singed: A very frustrated newbie who is unfolding his white flag in preparation to hoist it high.

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    I understand that the head is not the header. However in the theme that I chose to try and customise the code relating to the menu as well as the search bar has been put between the <head> tags.

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    Tim, thanks again for such a quick reply. Weekend duties are calling so I have to leave my computer. I’ll have to get back to this this evening. Would be great to pick it up then.

    All the best, Mat

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    I just thought of something that may be causing the problem. When I created the page to show only posts for the category “Inspiration” I used the single.php page and re-named it category-11.php (Inspiration is category 11.)

    If the single.php file is only designed to show one post then maybe it explains why the sidebar was in the correct place when only one post was shown on the “Inspiration” page. As soon as I added a second post to this page the sidebar moved. Would this be because I am trying to show more than one post in a page that is designed to show only one?

    I hope that all makes sense. I’ve almost confused myself ??

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    Hallo

    Thanks for the replies. t31os I did take a look at the validator but the problem I have with it is I firstly can’t understand half is what is written and then it seems to give a lot of possible causes but no defined solution. Or at least it looks that way to me.

    Tim the menu is placed in the header in the theme that I am using/customising. This seems to work fine for the other pages and the sidebar remains in place. The sidebar only moves on the one page that I have created, to show posts in the the category “Inspiration”.

    I’ll try the other changes that you mentioned and see what happens. It would be great if you could keep am eye on this thread as I would really appreciate some help from a more experienced coder.

    Thanks once again, Mat

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    The theme so far has been 2 straight weeks of trail and error. Well that’s 2 weeks of evenings. Opening pages from a theme that already existed in Dreamweaver and then deleting lines of code, copying and pasting a few from other pages then uploading the page to see what had happened. Sometimes I get lucky and it looks good. Other times it looks pants or I just see an error message and so I start again from scratch.

    Not an ideal process but it has got me this far. I thought that I had cracked it and arrived at a design I was happy with. I’d even managed to create a page that only shows posts from a certain category. Pretty advanced stuff, or so I thought. It looked great when it had just the one post on this page. I added a second post and the sidebar shifted.

    I wish I was better at coding and I could put my finger on what and how it went wrong. Unfortunately I can’t and my trail and error process isn’t working with this problem no matter how many variations of the code I try. So it’s become really frustrating to have got this far and have this one small element ruin the design.

    Thanks for the replies so far. I’ll take a look at what you provided, hopefully understand it and then place the right code, in the right place, in the right document.

    Fingers crossed.

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    Thanks for the reply. I have taken a look at previous posts as well as done Google searches. The problem is I’m not so great at coding and can’t seem to pin point the cause the cause of my particular problem in the layout I am using. Hence the request for help from someone with better coding knowledge than myself.

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    Would really appreciate some help with this. Is there someone out there that can help?

    Thread Starter matmochdre

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    Thanks again for the reply but this has me confused.

    When you look at the code for the page I linked to online it looks completly different to what I see when I open the page I created for this catagory.

    When I open the page to edit it I basically see the following. Is there something here that is wrong or out of place that would cause the sidebar to move?

    <?php get_header(); ?>

    <div class=”archive_single”>

    <div class=”left”><< <?php previous_post_link(‘%link’) ?></div>
    <div class=”right”><?php next_post_link(‘%link’) ?> >></div>
    <div class=”clear”></div>

    </div>

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

    <div class=”single”>

    <div class=”single_post”>
    <h3><?php the_title(); ?></h3>

    <?php the_content(‘<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this entry »</p>’); ?>

    <?php the_tags( ‘<p>Tags: ‘, ‘, ‘, ‘</p>’); ?>

    </div>

    </div>

    <?php endwhile; else: ?>

    <p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

    <?php endif; ?>

    </div>

    <?php get_sidebar(); ?>

    Thread Starter matmochdre

    (@matmochdre)

    Thanks for the reply

    Sorry I’m no code wiz so a lot of what is said on the page you linked to doesn”t mean much to me.

    I’ve pretty much been using trial and error to get this far. So there’s a high probability that the code is all over the place.

    Can you be a bit more specific with regards to the misplaced code that belongs in th document body.

    Sorry for asking for more. Just very new to this.

    Best regards, Mat

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