zaqedc

To clarify further, it seems that the slider uses hidden divs, or something similar. I think the presence of these “additional” divs are what’s pushing the sidebar out of alignment.

This does, in fact, appear to have been an issue with the width of the slider div. Apologies to anyone who wasted time read this!

EDIT – I’ll have a gander through firebug too, cheers Esmi!

That’s sorted it. I should read things more in depth before coming here and bleating about problems ?? Thanks very much!

Resolved with the following code:

<?php if (is_category('8')) { ?>
// use thumbnail code here
<?php } ?>

Thanks very much, that’s solved it for me!

A related question – I have two lists of categories, on used as a blog, the other a list of news items. The former does not need thumbnails beside the entries, the latter does.
Does anyone know how I might “divert” the news-item view to a template that was set to display thumbnails, while keeping the blog view using the non-thumbnail template? i.e. have my cake and eat it too ??

I imagine that some sort of condition would be required (e.g. if (cat=9) –> use different template) but am unsure of the exact syntax or where to place it. If anyone knows I’d be grateful.

I should mention also that it has always run locally, I’ve never used any sort of ftp program to upload any media/plugins

Marking as resolved – host will not allow iis settings changes so above is not necessary.

Tried deactivating all plugins and switching to twenty ten theme, on the off chance. Problem persists.

Seeing what appears to be conflicting information regarding permalinks for IIS 6. From what I’ve been reading it appears that once this workaround is applied that it will allow “pretty” permalinks. But the result of this thread appears to suggest that such a fix must be applied in order for PATHINFO permalinks to work. Can anyone clarify? If so, I may have to speak to my host to see if it’s possible to allow changes to the IIS.

EDIT – I should mention also that, having applied the above fix, pretty permalinks will not work for me, just display a 404 if I click into a page beyond the static front page.

Using PATHINFO permalinks works marginally better. When clicking on a page that’s not the front one, it will load the wordpress 404.php template and loop through/display all the posts.

So, more or less still in the same boat!

Put a fresh copy of wordpress on the machine and started from scratch to see whether or not it was something specific to my tweaking of the site that caused the issue. Problem was the same with the fresh. Have now restored the old site. If anyone has any ideas I’d appreciate it.

Thanks for that. I’ll start looking into it!

Anyone have an idea about the second question>?

That’s the ticket! Thanks very much.

Resolved. I mistakenly used a dot (.) instead of the hash symbol (#) in front of the searchsubmit section I had added to the css file. Looks like this and works correctly now:

#searchsubmit{
	float: right;
	margin-top:-38px;
	margin-left:15px;
	}

Found a section called input#s, which looks like it may control the button’s positioning. I’ve tried the following attributes in varying combinations:

float: right;
margin-top:-38px;
margin-right:30px;

No success.

You would need to have the wp-content folder backed-up and restore it afterwards also I think, as it contains everything that is specific to her site (themes, images, plugins etc.)

Of course, there is the possibility that it is something originating in that folder that is causing the issue in the first place (perhaps a plugin?).

I’d try a couple of less drastic things before removing the site completely. Perhaps you could disable the plugins from the admin screen and see if that makes a difference?