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I just ran into this problem the other day and found a fix. The only way to achieve this is through the use of a background image. Some people think if you use the following css: #sidebar {height: 100%;} that it would work but it actually doesn’t. The sidebar after all stretches only as long as the content inside it. So anyway back to the solution.

What you need to do is create a an image that is the same width and color as you sidebar (make it real small in height). I’m not sure how wide your sidebar is but suppose it’s 300px and I just checked and your sidebar’s color seems to be #323636. So what you need to do is use an image editing program like photoshop, fireworks, gimp or even paint and create a rectangle the same width as your sidebar and fill it in with the #323636 color. Then open your stylesheet.css and use the following code:

wrapper {
background-image: url(IMAGE_FOLDER/IMAGE_NAME.IMAGE_EXTENSION);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
float: right;
}

Now I don’t know your div structure so instead of wrapper maybe you need to use this css code on main content, or body, or some other div.

What this does is give the illusion that the sidebar is continuing all the way down the page. It doesn’t actually make the sidebar any longer.

Thanks LenK, I didn’t know about that document.

WordPress can be used to make websites that look nothing like blogs. You do need some coding experience though. But even if you don;t t the very least you can get rid of the get sidebar php command and use pages instead of posts and there you have it, a site that looks nothing like a blog. I think WordPress would be a better choice than Drupal or even Joomla since it is so easy to use.

Wow that is slow, I actually stopped trying after a while. There are a number of things that can cause a wp site to be slow: too many active plugins, php queries, mysql processes, etc. I went through the same thing and even after much optimization couldn’t fiqure out what was causing the slow down. Then I used the Safari browser for windows and turned on the “Activity” feature and went to my site. The activity tool in Safari lets you know everything that is happening (loading) in the background to put a site together. And once my site loaded I saw a bunch of stuff (stylesheets/js files/images) that weren’t found. So it was taking so long because I had the queries in my code to go find those files but since these files didn’t exist on my server and since the computer was looking for them none the less, the page took so long to load. So I simply deleted those queries, from header.php and the image calls from the stylesheets and my site got 10 times faster.

So I suggest you see if that’s the problem. If you don’t have safari download it for windows or mac (if that’s what you use) and go to window >> activity. Then go to your site and see if there are any items that aren’t found.

Thanks TiffanyBee, I did a search based on your suggestions and found this thread:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/215643

Which quickly gave me solutions to both my problems. I love when that happens.

I also suggest you download your website’s database and all the files on your server (from your root directory up –everything). You can install a database backup plugin and download your DB that way. And the server files can be downloaded by using any ftp client. In filezilla you would just select all the files in your root directory and right click and download. Next you can delete everything and still have everything you need to put your site back up anytime.

Yup, thanks a lot protist!

Thank You so much stvwlf, that worked great!

Hi,

You can use your ftp client to go into your wp-content >> plugins and delete the db cache folder. Maybe this will bring back your site.

Good luck.