Who_Dat

You gets your wish.

Thanks, that worked fine. I didn’t think it would show up, since it’s in an excluded category…but I guess they planned for exactly this.

Lawsy! I thought that was the clear part. (Or…what that facetious?)

It’s simple: when you type in the textarea for comments–just as I’m typing in the textarea now–the font size is waaaayyy too big. If I use Safari’s “Inspect Element” feature on this here textarea, I find that it’s set to a font size of 12px, and that’s drawing from forum-wp4.css.

When I do the same thing on my own blog, all it shows is that the text is being printed inside an iframe (“about:blank”), and there is no mention of any font styles. So I don’t know why the type is displaying so large, or what file to edit, or what rule to edit.

Thanks for the image fix, btw. I’m going to try that out right now.

Jeff, thanks for giving this some thought, but I guess I didn’t express my problem well enough. Your solution allows me to change the tag only in the widget–so that it uses an h6 while the other section titles use h4s, or whatever. What I need, though, is the ability to add class names depending on context…so that, for instance, when a visitor is not logged in he sees

<h4 class="title">Log In</h4>

…or if he clicks “Register,” he sees

<h4 class="title">Register</h4>

…and once he’s logged in, he sees

<h4 class="welcome">Welcome, MrUserPerson</h4>

This allows me to make the first h4 a true title–i.e., BIG–and make the second one much smaller and less obtrusive. Without class names, I still have to be satisfied with using one style for both.

Thank you, that worked.

Since the home page is also loading from a template (home.php), should the code on that page follow the same pattern? i.e.:

<?php query_posts('post_type=post&cat=-8&paged='.get_query_var('paged')); // exclude category 8
?>

Solved…the problem was that I was editing the site in an older version of Safari, and even though it looked as though the widgets were being added to the sidebar, they weren’t. I logged in using Firefox and the widget area was bare. Added “Theme My Login” and saved, and there it was.