Easel theme sidebar help

Ok, I think I see the problem.

The right sidebar needs to be a sibling to the comic wrap, right now its a child of column, which is the div below it.

Once you make these elements have the the same hiarchy you should be able to use css to position them differently. As far as the pages and other blog pages that don’t contain the comic wrap. You should be ok as long as you move the comic-wrap div into the subcontent-wrapper rather then pulling the sidebar out of that wrapper.

Thanks for the help….I think I understand what you are saying, but I’m not sure where to implement it in the theme. I’m kind of a novice. ^^;

If you install Firefox Firebug then when you visit your website you can immediately see the css styling plus line numbers for the comic area and sidebar

It will also ENCLOSE in a box those areas; making it easy to see their sizes

Thanks, that’s a nice tool, but it still doesn’t help me understand which document I need to add the div tags into. Is it a php document? Or do I just change the order of my stylesheet? Or something else?

You will have to change this in index.php of your template file. If you move the div “comic-wrap”, and place it directly under the div “column” it should work. You will have to change your padding for “column” in your style.css to 0 pixels instead of 5 pixels.

If you need more explanation just ask.

Thanks avantmedia and thanks again to everyone who has helped so far….I think my main problem at this point is that my index.php contains no div tags. ^^; Here is my index.php:

<?php get_header();

if (!easel_themeinfo('disable_blog_on_homepage')) {
	Protect();

	$args = array(
			'public' => true,
			'_builtin' => false
			);
	$output = 'names';
	$operator = 'and';

	$loop_post_type = get_query_var('post_type');
	$post_types = array('post');

	if (empty($loop_post_type)) {
		$custom_post_types = get_post_types( $args , $output , $operator );
		$post_types = array_merge( $custom_post_types, array( 'post' ) );
		// remove comic and casts from the loop
		$post_types = array_diff( $post_types, array ( 'comic', 'casts' ) );
		$blog_query = array(
				'posts_per_page' => (int)easel_themeinfo('home_post_count'),
				'paged' => get_query_var('paged'),
				'post_type' => $post_types
			);
	} else {
		$blog_query = array(
				'posts_per_page' => (int)easel_themeinfo('home_post_count'),
				'paged' => get_query_var('paged'),
				'post_type' => $loop_post_type
				);
	}

/*	if (is_paged()) $blog_query = $query_string;
	var_dump($blog_query); */
	$posts = &query_posts($blog_query);
	if (have_posts()) {
		while (have_posts()) : the_post();
			easel_display_post();
		endwhile;
		if (easel_themeinfo('enable_comments_on_homepage') && (easel_themeinfo('home_post_count') == '1')) {
			$withcomments = 1;
			comments_template('', true);
		} else
			easel_pagination();
	}
	UnProtect();
}

get_footer(); ?>

In the end I just decided to switch to a full comicpress theme because it was easier to get it the way I wanted. ^^;

I just wanted to post this for anyone else who might still be having this problem. You need to modify the layout-head.php in the Easel theme, not the index.php.

layout-head.php:

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Hope this help anyone who needs it. (Note this only works for the “2 column” options)