thebradmiskell

Thanks, Krishna, but since I could not deactivate the Constant Contact plugin without breaking the site that wouldn’t work for me.

What I wound up doing is, using a backup of the site files that predated recent updates, overwriting the wp-admin directory. It worked: I then got the login “box” on my /wp-admin sign-in page.

Peter,

I can’t thank you enough. Disabling debug let me login to the admin side. I was then able to reactivate the WPML plugins so that widgets with translated text reappeared. Knock on wood, everything seems to be behaving.

Again, thank you so much.

Brad Miskell

This isn’t the kind of solution I prefer, but I found a workaround. I put all the images in one folder, Zipped it and uploaded. That get’s them to realign properly.

vtxyzzy,

you rule. clear, correct explanations. i really appreciate the help.

your help with the WARNINGS messages was especially helpful.

Thank you, vtxyzzy,

My messing around has totally messed up the (work) site where i was experimenting with this. Something similar happened a while back when i was working with a theme writer who ultimately had me switch out the functions.php in my wordpress install (via ftp). we’re no longer working together, so i can’t ask about it. but i can no longer do UPDATE in site’s the wp-admin without getting all kinds of WARNINGS about the header already being loaded…

I may have to trash the install and create another work site for this website.

In the meantime, I’m still unsure about your advice above. I only understand so much php and don’t know whether the code you gave me, with the php tags, should come after the closing php tag on the functions.php doc (the doc begins and ends with <?php, ?> tags). Would you try it directly after the current ?> or without the tags inside of the current php tags? Am I making any sense?

And again, if you know of any good documentation about WP Functions and could steer me towards it I would be grateful, as I already am for your help.

(BTW- I generally do this stuff with Textedit on my mac, though I may have uploaded a new functions.php to the site that had been opened in Dreamweaver, which I rarely use but may have done this time to open the .php doc.)

Anyway, thanks, much.

Just want to finish with a big thank you to esmi, who definitely pointed me in the right direction to get out of a lot of hot water.

I added some special rules to ZERO padding in affected divs. It pushed some things to the edge of the div, but still left what I can only describe as an indent.

Here’s a screen shot: https://browsershots.org/screenshots/ded5744887cd5d36d806b7b6fa0368f9/ —the affected areas I’m trying to address now are the BOOK IT, LINKS and RECENT POST “widgets” in the sidebar. Any idea of what I can tell the special CSS to do?

Thanks, again, so much. I’m really desperate.

Thank you, so much, for responding. I will validate again, though I’ve done so in the past.

I’m looking at the site on IE8, too, and it’s fine. But I was just sent screen shots from my clients system of the book company logos in the sidebar section BOOK IT that are pushed RIGHT so that they protrude out of the box. And the first line of text in each link in the LINKS section is also pushed like there’s a double margin. But any of these links that are long enough to have a second line of text are, like 10 pixels to the left of the first line–making it seem like they’re all indented as the first line of a paragraph.

There are other, similar issues, and my client is being really impatient. Again, the site looks fine everywhere I’ve seen it (and on the vast majority of systems that I’ve gotten screen shots of it from browsershots.com).

I’m going to go look at validating again.

thank you, moshu. again, you’ve been a big help. your suggestion works perfectly.

however, in some instances, i’d like the include statements to call multiple sidebars. i’ve experimented (guessed, more like it) with syntax such as:

<?php
if (in_category(‘2’))
include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar2.php’&’/sidebar22.php’);

and

<?php
if (in_category(‘2’))
include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar2.php’);(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/sidebar22.php’);

which might make you laugh.

and I’ve looked at tutorials so that I didn’t have to ask you. But I’m working with a theme that uses the following method to call sidebars:

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/sidebar4.php”);?>

<?php include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/sidebar3.php”);?>

and i can’t figure out, with the open, if/elseif statement, how to call multiple sidebars in the way that the above, consecutive statements do.

thanks, again, for your help and consideration.

no, that’s very helpful. thank you.

in the meantime, i’ve gained some understanding of where in a sidebar’s php code (at least in the code of the theme i’m adapting) the corresponding number of the sidebar can be found or should be placed. in other words, which sidebar in the presentation>widgets panel any given sidebar.php refers to. the first lines of code on my sidebar.php files read (for example):

<div id=”sidebar3″>

<?php if ( function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(3) ) : else : ?>

It’s the “3” within the parenthesis that dictates which of the sidebars currently generated by my theme’s functions .php file is referred to.

[[[[The code I’m talking about in my functions.php file is:

if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebars’) )

register_sidebars(10, array(

‘before_widget’ => ‘<div id=”%1$s” class=”widget %2$s”>’,

‘after_widget’ => ‘</div>’,

‘before_title’ => ‘<h2>’,

‘after_title’ => ‘</h2>

‘,

));
]]]]

I don’t know if I’m being clear enough to help anyone whom might have a similar problem. I can try again if need be.

again, moshu, thank you very much.

thanks, michael, for your very thorough explanation. i’m going to have to spend some time tinkering before reporting back to you and others on how your understanding informs mine, and on any further enlightenment (i trust) i gain in the process.

thank you, moshu, for your attention and time.

such a query does return something close to what i was hoping for…so i’m hoping that once i get the profusion of categories and sidebars that i’m using to mimic a NYTimes type of front page sorted out that i will indeed get “that day’s paper” (its front page).

(FYI-I’m attempting something that’s probably on the ambitious side for someone with my wordpress/php/css/html abilities. I’ll do my level best not to ask too many stupid questions and thank you and forum members much for your and their generosity.)