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Can't move category widget from top

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12:46 pm
June 26, 2010


JeanKL

Member

posts 3

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Hi Ryan,

I'm new to Flexibility2 (and am planning to migrate to Flextheme soon).  Meanwhile, my blog is nearly set up and I'm ready to announce it. 

My problem is that the Category widget is stuck at the top of the sub sidebar.  Right now, I have rendered it inactive, so when I go to flexibility themes->widgets and look at which widgets are active, it doesn't show up.   But when I go to my website, there is the list of categories!

I tried adding ategory as a wCidget, but then TWO categories show up on the sub sidebar — the one that is stuck at the top and the second wherever I prioritize it on the sidebar.

My website is http://nextlevel2.leadingconsciously.com.   Any help will be most appreciated.

Jean

8:10 pm
June 26, 2010


cjjohn

Cyberia

Member

posts 27

2

Place an empty text module in the TOP sidebar widget.

12:48 pm
June 28, 2010


JeanKL

Member

posts 3

3

cjjohn said:

Place an empty text module in the TOP sidebar widget.


 

Thanks.  I tried it.  Category is still stuck at the top.  I activated category on the subsidebar, so now I have this:

– empty text box at top sidebar

– category at the top of the sub sidebar

– other stuff in the sub sidebar

– category at the bottom of the sub sidebar

 

Any other suggestions?

nextlevel2.leadingconsciously.com

(BTW, I am going to get the blog URL changed today to jeanlattingblog.leadingconsciously.com if the above URL doesn't work.)

The URL, though, has nothing to do with my problem.

12:43 pm
June 29, 2010


cjjohn

Cyberia

Member

posts 27

4

I suppose if I had read closely… sorry. I think I understand what you were asking now… you can get rid of the catergories module by editing the sidebar.php page: Appearance –> Editor –> sidebar.php

 

Look for this bit of coding (almost 3/4 down):

<div class="Categ">
      <h2>Categories</h2>
      <ul>
        <?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&title_li='); ?>
      </ul>
    </div>

 

Delete all of it.

 

Neither of your liks are working at the moment, so I'll wait to go see. I did find nextlevel.leadingconsciously.com – is that your backup while these changes are going on? Very nice!

10:14 am
June 30, 2010


JeanKL

Member

posts 3

5

It worked!  I was very nervous to try it, thinking it would delete all categories, but it only deleted the top one.  Thank you so much.

 

Why did it only delete the top category?

 

I have another issue now with the subscribe to RSS And e-mail, but I'll put that in a new post.

 

I sure do appreciate this!

10:30 am
June 30, 2010


cjjohn

Cyberia

Member

posts 27

6

JeanKL said:

It worked!  I was very nervous to try it, thinking it would delete all categories, but it only deleted the top one.  Thank you so much.

 

Why did it only delete the top category?

 

I have another issue now with the subscribe to RSS And e-mail, but I'll put that in a new post.

 

I sure do appreciate this!


You're so welcome!

I'm not a programmer nor a designer, and I know just enough about coding to get myself into real trouble (so I understand your hesitation!), but trial and error has been a good teacher. Once I screw something up for good and have to go back to square one, I learn to back up my work frequently! LOL!

 

Anyway, as near as I can figure, Flexibility2 has the instructions to place a category module written in 2 different places: in the sidebar.php page AND the widgets section. I would think one would overwrite the other, hence my first suggestion. But that's apparently not always the case.

 

Glad I could help!

~cj