How to Save an Edit

  • I purchased a new theme and when I uploaded it the sidebar slid down to the bottom. So I opened Developer Tools and when I removed <div class=”sidebartop”> & </div> in Elements it corrected the issue. The problem is I have not idea how to save the correction now in Developer tools and if I can’t where in the world would I find the file to delete it out of? I reverted back to my old theme for now and I ran my site through the validator which came back with a ton of errors. I can copy the corrected through the validator but then again I don’t know where to put it. Can someone please tell me which file I need to actually edit. I am very new to all this and while I can figure most things out I just can’t this one. My site is https://ritareviews.net

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  • So I opened Developer Tools

    I’m not sure what that is. Is that a code editor like notepad or coda? If you are modifying the theme files, then what you need to do is go to your site via FTP and replace the file you modified in your theme folder which you’ll find in the wp-content folder.

    Make sure you keep a back up first.

    Also, if you purchased a theme and the sidebar slid down— I would contact the developer and ask if they can help, because that’s not suppose to happen.

    Thread Starter Rita33

    (@rita33)

    Developer Tools opens at the bottom of the site so you can see what you are changing while you are doing it. I hope that makes sense. It has things like Elements, Resources, etc and I just edited the Elements section. Once a while back I swear I figured this out but for the life of me I can’t remember. I think the sidebar slid down because of that weird code on my site. My biggest problem is not being sure of the which file in my FTP. but I will go and check in wp-content.

    I would download the whole theme, make a back up and then make a few changes here and there and see what happens.

    Developer tool… Duh! I should have known that!

    Thread Starter Rita33

    (@rita33)

    Okay so I managed to get the sidebar back up where it goes but I have this crazy little &. If you go to my site https://ritareviews.net you can see it just under my navigation menu.

    In the HTML source code, I can see this – <div class="sidebartop"> & </div>

    I think you just need to change the sidebar.php to :

    <div class="sidebartop"> </div>

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