BreezyOhio

I guess we’re not quite done here ..
in oenology|Layout I have 2 column set for everything. The first option throws me a bit .. Default static page Layout .. it says two columns (menu on left, content on right)

I’m actually getting content on left, sidebar on right, though in testing I can see it’s the left sidebar. What’s the difference between menu and sidebar in this context?

There isn’t an option for 2 column (sidebar on left,content on right), which is the layout I’m looking for. Is there a way to get that? The single post Layout has this as an option but not the static page layout.

Page edit though doesn’t offer edits for page name, etc. It’s only content editing. I cannot tell you how many times I clicked on page|edit trying to change the name of the page. Finally I just tried quick edit and there it was.

BTW, thanks for all your help. I’m donating .. can you give me a link?

Yes, things have changed quite a bit with the setting changes you put me onto. Thanks! I’m not sure if it’s going to get me there but it’s all much better now. Maybe they shouldn’t offer that template drop down in the quick edit section .. and frankly that section should be something like “page edit” instead of quick edit.

If I go to quick edit for a page I can choose from two templates .. front page and default template .. I chose front page because I am building a website, not just a blog. In fact it will, if all goes to plan, have about 10 static pages and one blog page.

On my static pages I want to use a two column layout (left sidebar and main entry on right) along with a header and footer of course. I went into appearance|oenology|layout and set every option to two columns.

I went to widgets and created a text box in the left sidebar. It DOES show up but only in the front page template, along with many other widgets. In the default template it is not there. It would seem from a neophyte’s point of view that there should be widget placement options for each page template but there doesn’t appear to be.

I guess because of the consequent confusion/interplay between layout options, page templates, and widget placement I would like to make some pages that always work the same way, thus maybe making a series of page templates that have widgets in place, like the front page template seems to do. Really I don’t need to do this IF I can figure out how all these consistently interact.

Sorry if I’m making this confusing ..

I did that but I guess I didn’t click the “change” button below it ??

I reverted the theme-setup.php and made the suggested change and it works!

Okay, well i wasn’t able to get the child functions.php approach to work. I THINK it was because of the add-action, which seems to only affect the print view of the page. I also tried some other approaches such as add_action ‘after_setup_theme’ but no luck there either.

in the end I edited the theme-setup.php file

I would vastly preferred to use the child functions.php so that it won’t break on updates but such is life. Looks great so far.

I took your advice and created a child .. good thought.

Anyways I cannot get it to go with my functions.php file. I’m sure you can look at it and in 10 seconds tell me where it’s wrong. It’s the php flags I’m sure ..

<?php
function custom_oenology_header_style() {
?>
<style type=”text/css”>
#site-header-text {
background: none;
}
</style>
<?php

// Use a priority of 99, to ensure this outputs last
add_action( ‘wp_print_styles’, ‘custom_oenology_header_style’, 99 );
?>

Would I add that function to the functions.php file as before?

just curious .. why would you ever want to add a shaded overlay to a non default header image or is that just some leftover code from something else?

Chip

Yes, this stuff is too tricky to do when distracted by your day job, for sure.

results are ..
no text (no matter what is selected in the header settings)
there is still a grey overlay over the header image.

I’m not really sure where this grey is coming from. Thanks for giving it an effort and when you get it further down the road or if you want me to try something just reply to this thread. I’ll be happy to try it out.

Yes, those darn syntax errors .. I understand ??

Just a heads up though .. that did get rid of the text but also got rid of the header image as well

Yep, thought so.

So when I do this I’m getting ..
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_RETURN in /home/jwhit/public_html/wp-content/themes/oenology/functions.php on line 132

line 132 on my file is ..
return $site_header;

Any thoughts?

That last option would be for editing/adding code to functions.php .. would that be before the
?>

or after that line?

Okay .. is there an edit I can do with header.php in the meantime? If it’s soon to be fixed I’ll just let it go as it will be a few days till live publish.

I’ll edit out that live link too if it’s okay with you ..

here it is ..
https://xxxxx/~
It’s a temporary location for testing ..