Move Widget Area

  • I want to move my widget area completely out of the content area. I want them to be in two separate boxes. What php file do I go into the change where the widget is located? I did this for my header because I wanted my header image to be the full width of the page along with my navigation and it was easy to find, but now I can’t find where to do the same thing with my widget area. Thanks

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  • What theme are you using?

    Thread Starter emilypierce723

    (@emilypierce723)

    Twenty twelve but I created a child theme

    I want them to be in two separate boxes.

    I’m not sure exactly what you are trying to do. Can you be more specific?

    Thread Starter emilypierce723

    (@emilypierce723)

    Ok. So twenty twelve has all of the main content in a wrapper that only spans I think 724px. Everything use to be inside of that div, but I moved the header and nav outside of it so it spans the entire screen. I want to move the widget area outside of the wrapper because i want to change the background color of it and adda drop shadow but when I do you it looks stupid because it’s inside of the main content wrapper. If you’d like I could make the changes and send you the link.

    Please post a link to a site using this child theme here.

    Thread Starter emilypierce723

    (@emilypierce723)

    https://www.emilypiercedesigns.com It’s not close to being finish because I’m having issues with my portfolio plugin as well but the widget area i want to move outside of the content.

    May I suggest that you start by putting your nav menu markup back below the opening <body> tag in your child theme’s header.php template file?

    Thread Starter emilypierce723

    (@emilypierce723)

    if I do that, it will move it back where it was before. I’m not worried about the header and nav. I want to change the widget area.

    You also may want to check your site on a small device – it’s not working too well ATM…

    Changing the layout of a responsive theme/template isn’t that simple – how familiar are you with CSS?

    Thread Starter emilypierce723

    (@emilypierce723)

    Very familiar.

    Doing absolutely anything with that theme right now would be totally pointless when it has such a serious markup error. There should be absolutely no markup between </head> and <body>. When that has been done, please let us know and we’ll have another look.

    Thread Starter emilypierce723

    (@emilypierce723)

    Ok I fixed it. I didn’t even notice that I did that. Sorry. I’m also seeing that some of the styling that I did through CSS isn’t showing up when I open Canary. I have a custom font that I downloaded that isn’t showing up and the colors and size on most of my a:hover isn’t working. How can I get my custom font to show up for other people?

    How did you add that font?

    Thread Starter emilypierce723

    (@emilypierce723)

    I downloaded it to my computer.

    So you didn’t embed in the theme’s CSS? Perhaps you need to review how to use @font-face. You also need to ensure that the font is licensed for general public use.

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