I've set up a simple site using the flebility 2 theme and it's coming along nicely. There's a few things in the sidebars that i don't need or use so i want to get rid of them so i don't have 'clutter' on the page.
In the top sidebar boxes, i want the top box, but i don't want the 2 under it (recent posts, and recent comments). How do i get rid of them?
And in the sub side bar, i don't want 'categories' or 'archives'. How do i get rid of them?
Also, i've got a few tabs under the header to other pages on my site, but is there a way i can also add links in the sidebar to other pages? I mean apart from the 'links' section that's already there. I would like to add a new section titled 'articles' with links to articles that i'll put in sub-folders.
Incase you can't tell i'm quite a newbie so please keep any instructions simple :-) I'm sure i'll upgrade to flextheme later but right now i'm trying to get my head around this. One step at a time!
cheers
Yuri
4:27 am April 17, 2009
podman
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anyone have an answer please?
11:51 am April 17, 2009
buddyjesus07
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don't know but I am having problem with the sidebar being pushed to the Bottom of the Page!
5:05 pm April 17, 2009
Ryan
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The top part can be done simply by activating a text widget with the content you want. That will remove the next 2 boxes. On the sidebar, you can add the links as a text widget and use HTML to create your links. Simply activating different widgets will remove the default content.
@buddyjesus07 – Chances are there is something in your posts that is too wide for the container, causing the sidebar to drop.
6:00 pm April 17, 2009
podman
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Hi Ryan
thanks for your reply! I kind of understand but not completely.
I assume the text widget is something i need to download, and then upload to my WP widgets folder? That much i think i can do, although i'm not sure how i'll be at doing what you've said to, i'll have to play around with it and hopefully work it out. If i really get stuck i'll write back for help Can you recommend a text widget that is right for what i want to do?
cheers
Yuri
6:05 pm April 17, 2009
Ryan
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No, widgets are built into WP. Just go into the widgets in your Appearance menu. There you can select the sidebar location you want to activate in from the drop down menu in the top right corner. Then just click "Show" and then click "Add" on the Text widget link. Then you can type whatever you want in the box and give it a title.
6:22 pm April 17, 2009
podman
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thanks Ryan
i'll give that a go and let you know how i do
cheers
Yuri
6:49 pm April 17, 2009
podman
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Hi Ryan
i've added a text wideget to my top sidebar, but i can't seem to do anything with it. There is a blue box under the 'current widgets' section on my WP admin wigets page, which says 'Text' on the left, and 'edit' on the right. But there is no box for me to type anything into, and if i click on 'edit' nothing happens, so i can't see how i can actually add the title and text in the top sidebar box.
On my site, all the top sidebar boxes have now disapeared and there is just an empty box.
How do i compse the title and text for it?
cheers
Yuri
3:44 pm April 18, 2009
podman
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ok, i've got the top sidebar sorted out. For the benefit of others who may have the same problem i did (adding a text widget to top sidebar but can not edit because when you click on edit, nothing happens), i found 2 solutions. You can right click on edit and open in new window. The new window will respond when you click on edit. Or if you restart your computer it should be ok.
Now, current 'problem'. In lower side bar, i want to remove all together the 'categories' and 'archives' sections. If i add any widget to the lower sidebar the 'archives' and 'links' sections disapear. So no problem with getting rid of 'categories' but i have 2 problems:
1/ how do i get rid of 'categories'? I haven't found a way to do that.
2/ If i add a 'links' widget, i get rid of the archives section (which i want to do) and i keep my links section (which i want to do), but now it is titled 'blogroll' which i don't want and it doesn't give me any option to edit the title. Is there a way to rename it back to 'links'?
If i can't edit the title from blogroll back to links, i'm left with the same original problem. How do i keep my 'links' section but get rid of the 'archives' section?
cheers
Yuri
5:34 pm April 20, 2009
Ryan
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Ok Yuri, ready to edit some code? In your sidebar.php file, look for this:
It's clear down towards the bottom of the file. Delete all 4 lines and your archives will be gone and your links will be the only thing in the right sub-sidebar.
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