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ozwds – Appreciate your reply. min-height would work if I could set it to be whatever the height of the block is in the second column of the same row. Any way I can do that?

thetasteofaussie – Thanks much for your help but I can’t get it to work. Using your CSS the tan background does not show unless I change z-index to 1 but then the text disappears. Any suggestions?

That worked perfectly – thanks much!

Your welcome. Thanks much for all of your help.

That worked!! Thank you so much!

Tobias,

Thanks much for your help.

#1 Worked perfectly thanks!

#2 Sorry, I think I was mistaken on the version. I believe the 1.7 version I saw was for datatables.

I contacted Dylan Kuhn, the plugin author and he said I would need to set the value after the table is created. I read up on JQuery basics and tried:

<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-1.10.2.js">
$( document ).ready(function() {
$( '.column-filter-widgets select' ).eq( 0 ).val( 'CP' ).trigger( 'change' );
});
</script>

…but this just made the drop down list disappear when inserted in either the sidebar via a text widget or in the page. I sent this on to Dylan and asked if he had any ideas and he suggested I try:

<script>
jQuery( function( $ ) {
  $( '#tablepress-12_wrapper' ).dataTable( {
    'fnInitComplete': function(oSettings, json) {
      $( '.column-filter-widgets select' ).eq( 0 ).val( 'CP' ).trigger( 'change' );
    }
  } );
} );
</script>

..but said it was hard to tell what would actually work. Unfortunately this also just made the drop down list disappear.

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks much!
Tom

That was it! I must have accidentally clicked the little upside down triangle in the right middle of the screen and collapsed the entire table content section. Can’t believe I didn’t see that. Thanks much!

I tried putting this at the top of index.php but it had no effect:

<?php $withcomments = 1; ?>

Okay for now I’m just going to settle for having a different comments form show depending on how people access a post. I’ll check back later and see if anyone can tell me how to get the same comments form to show on index.php and archive.php as shows on single.php.

Thanks again kenholland. Looks like #4 on the link above has the solution:

“To display comments on the main index or archive pages, you’ll need to set the $withcomments variable to “1” before calling this tag. “

I cannot find the file where the the $withcomments variable is saved though. Any idea what file I need to edit?

Thanks sathishn and henkholland. The Info from both of you was very helpful and got me closer to getting this how I want it. One last related question. When a post is viewed via the single.php template the comments form looks different than it does when I look at the same post via the archive.php or index.php templates. I noticed that single.php uses:

<?php comments_template(); ?>

to display the comment form but the templates archive.php and index.php use:

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/comments.php'); ?>

to display the comment form.

I tried inserting

<?php comments_template(); ?>

into index.php and archive.php instead but nothing shows up on the comment form. Any idea what I need to do to get it to display?

I like how it displays in single.php ( https://idwdesign.biz/blackburn/wordpress/christmas-and-technicolor )

rather than the other way like here https://idwdesign.biz/blackburn/wordpress/blog

Thanks again for your help. I did exactly what you said and it almost works: https://idwdesign.biz/blackburn/wordpress/blog shows the latest blog post with index.php customized the way I want it. But when I click on a link for an archived post e.g. https://idwdesign.biz/blackburn/wordpress/2009/11 the page looks different and apparently uses something other than index.php as it’s template. Can you tell me how to get the archived pages to also use index.php – or else help me figure out what template page they are using? I can’t seem to figure that out.

Update. I changed the permalink structure from /archives/%post_id% to /%postname% and now when I click on “view” under one of the posts the page doesn’t have a messed up sidebar (see https://idwdesign.biz/blackburn/wordpress/christmas-and-technicolor). But https://idwdesign.biz/blackburn/wordpress/blog just shows the homepage with no blog text so it seems to still be using index.php for the template instead of page_blog.php even though I have specified that template in the page called “blog.” Can anyone suggest what I might need to do? Thanks!

Thanks for your reply. It does look like the posts page is using index.php as it’s template – at least when I click “view” to preview posts, but how do I get it to use page_blog.php? I went into the page “blog” that I have set to be the blog page and set the template to page_blog.php.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I Googled “faux background css” and came up with the linked article below, followed the instructions and that did the trick: https://www.ehow.com/how_4488586_install-faux-columns.html

Tom

I’ll answer my own question in case anyone else runs into this. The problem was the [REMIX] [/REMIX] tags. TExt with special characters that are between those tags – such as spaces – don’t get translated correctly and display as the funky character. I moved [/REMIX] closer to the top of the affected pages so that these tags only enclose the header and breadcrumbs – e.g.:

[REMIX]
[php] include(TEMPLATEPATH.”/includes/breadcrumb.php”);[/php]
[php] the_title(); [/php]
[/REMIX]

…and the problem went away.