my wp template – help please

when i click the ‘1 comment’ bit, it completly stuffs the page layout

In case you’ve got a file single.php in your theme open it – if you don’t use index.php -, search for <div id="posts-column"> and below that you’ll find a comment that reads <!– You can start editing here. –>, two lines above that there’s the closing div of the post and its content. Remove it and place it after the closing form element or after a PHP call to the function comments_template() (or similar).

Once you’ve done that the comments will have a nice white background and will be aligned right under the post. Looks much better.

another is with adding widgets one in particular is the calendar and i cant seem to get that to appear anywhere

Have you already read this? Or register_sidebar and dynamic_sidebar in particular? All you have to do is to register a sidebar and place a call to dynamic_sidebar into your theme – e.g. sidebar.php – where you’d like the widgets to appear.

thanks for the reply i cant seem to find the post bit
[code]
<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id="posts-column">
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
<span class="post-category"><?php the_category(); ?></span>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

<?php the_content('<p>Read the rest of this entry »</p>'); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p>Pages: ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

<p class="meta"><span class="meta-left">Posted on <?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> by <?php the_author(); ?></span> <span class="meta-right"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></span></p>
<div class="clear"></div>
</div>[/code]

It must be right below the snippet you just posted…

this was thhe rest

<?php comments_template(); ?>

<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

As I said above you should move the closing div for <div id="posts-column"> after the call to comments_template. So the whole thing would be:

<?php get_header(); ?>
<div id=”posts-column”>
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<div class=”post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”>
<span class=”post-category”><?php the_category(); ?></span>
<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>

<?php the_content(‘<p>Read the rest of this entry ?</p>’); ?>

<?php wp_link_pages(array(‘before’ => ‘<p>Pages: ‘, ‘after’ => ‘</p>’, ‘next_or_number’ => ‘number’)); ?>

<p class=”meta”><span class=”meta-left”>Posted on <?php the_time(‘F jS, Y’) ?> by <?php the_author(); ?></span> <span class=”meta-right”><?php comments_popup_link(‘No Comments ?’, ‘1 Comment ?’, ‘% Comments ?’); ?></span></p>
<div class=”clear”></div>

<?php comments_template(); ?>
</div>
<?php endwhile; else: ?>

<p>Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.</p>

<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

Get it?

oh thank you , it worked!

now i just have to figure out this sidebar problem

That’s great to hear. I hope the hints I gave you above help you to figure this out too.

yeah cant thank you enough.

ill try look again as i struggled to get anything happening with the widgets, jus :S on how it works on pre made and not on mine

thanks
daniel