souleye

thanks. I’m not referring to a sidebar but rather the empty area right of the content area (including the sidebar). I think this is dumb. if you have to create a self adjusting theme, at least center it.

I tried everything that i could think of that makes sense. sometimes, I just don’t understand how these people use css. why would anybody design a theme and create this lopsided space that is almost 2/3 the actual width of the site. doesn’t make much sense to me. the link to the site is:
https://xhibitswebdesign.com/techno/
thank you for your help.

it did indeed. it was so simple, I couldn’t even think about it! thanks.

thank you alchymyth but I’m not sure if it answers my question. possibly, it has to do with my limited familiarity with wordpress. I’m trying to see if there’s a way to call a function or something and give it the name of a widget to make it appear on the sidebar. something like this:
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/recent-comments.php’); ?>

christine, thank you for your response. by the time I got your email I had solved the problem and gone to bed. I must’ve renamed the home page and lost track of it. I created a new home, but technically it was not ‘home’. when I couldn’t figure out the whole thing, I reinstalled the theme so I can audit what happens and when. when I saw the home button, I could work it into the custom menu. thanks again for your offer to help.
souleye

thank you for your contribution. I went to wp-terms. actually I went there sometime ago but I couldn’t see any clues. so I went back. all it does show me is term id, name, slug and group. when I click edit hoping to find relevant info, I don’t see anything that refers to url.

here’s a link to a category:
https://insideblackhollywood.com/category/interviews/
like you’ll see the images are missing. thanks.

that’s cool thanks. all I needed to know. you know clients can try to pull a fast one on you sometimes. usually, I don’t grant admin privileges until I get paid. that was my fear. this particular client wanted to change so many things around that I had to grant admin privileges. now, what are you telling me? if he’s a user with administrative privileges? they wouldn’t know how to access the database, much less change it.

thanks but somebody pointed me to the right direction. in addition to the index.php, it seems that I needed to modify all the files that referenced that meta, namely single.php, archives.php, etc… but the other files are not present in my theme. I think I got all issues resolved except how to disable the sidebar on the posts and some other pages. thanks again.

that’s the one that I first started looking at but it dumped menu items that I didn’t need. too much complication. client sells ‘green’ servers. so the listings are just for his clients to read up on the specs of the machines. that’s all. he doesn’t have thousands of them, just a bunch. I modified the files that you referenced. the meta data is gone. that’s at least one issue off the list. thank you. next is to make the sidebar go away from the posts page.

we’re not using ecommerce, which makes it even dicier. products are listed just for specification. though they’re for sale, they’re not sold on the website. I have looked at a few plugins, but none will allow to display images along the product listings. at a pinch I thought I could use an image gallery but the text that goes with the images is 3 to 5 paragraphs long.

thank you for your reply. I’m assuming that there should be a way, using conditionals to show the sidebar if some conditions are met and hide it otherwise. I would like to be able to show the sidebar ideally only on two pages but it can show up on all of the pages. but on the blog pages, for esthetic reasons, I would like it remove so that listings flow.

thank you for your reply. I’m using zeemagazine. I think that I’m losing my mind. I went to index.php and I commented out the lines of code. I think it was working yesterday but now it is not working. see below:

<!-- <div class="postmeta">
					<span class="date"><a>"><?php // the_time(get_option('date_format')); ?></a> </span>
					<span class="author"><?php // the_author(); ?> </span>
					<span class="folder"><?php // the_category(', ') ?> </span>
				</div>-->

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I really thought this would take care of it. any assistance will be appreciated. thanks.

thank you for your contribution. I was way off thinking that you would need php scripting to achieve that. now I still got one question: what is the ‘visual tab’? thanks again.

I resolved the issue. I knew how to do it but unfortunately, I was modifying files on the wrong template. I had crafty-cart as the default theme, but for some reason I had always thought autumn leaves was the default. so I was modifying the right file on the wrong template. the way to do it, is to open the page.php file and toward the bottom, there’s a php line of code that says:
<?php comments_template(); ?>
either you remove it completely or just comment it out as I did by adding ‘//’ before the function. that should take care of it.
<?php //comments_template(); ?>