cwoodside

Hi icheryl,
Sounds like a CSS float problem, your best bet may be to provide the community with a link to what you have up at the moment and the name of the template you are using.

Once people are able see what is happening it will be easier to give you some more specific guidance.

Thanks,
Chet

Hi AssassiNBG,
Sorry, it’s a little hard to make an accurate suggestion without seeing what is happening. That being said your sidebar content is most likely exceeding the space left inside your main container. I would suggest checking the following:

1. The overall width of your main container (“wrap”), let’s assume it’s 940px.

2. The overall width assigned to your posts, lets assume it’s 600px.

3. The overall width your sidebar is assigned, let’s assume it’s 300px.

4. Your gutter space, this means calculate the margins, padding and left/right borders assigned to both your post area and your sidebar area.

5. Add all these numbers up, if they sum exceeds 940px (the width of your main container), you will have the answer to your problem.

Hope this helps,
Chet

Hi lalindsey,
I’m assuming that you are looking to show only one selected image with each post. If I’m correct you may want to try looking at this anther way, here is what I am thinking:

1. Create a custom field called “wp_uploadname”, this field will be used to enter the name of the image you would like to appear (including the extension).

2. Update your theme so that you use code similar to this for each post:

<img src="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-content/uploads/<?php the_time('Y/m/'); ?><?php $key ="wp_uploadname"; echo get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, true); ?>" alt="" width="" height="" />

“wp_uploadname” represents the name of your custom field.

3. Create a new post, upload an image in the standard way (without actually attaching it to the post body) then type the name of that image (including extension) in the custom field you had created.

4. After doing this the code from step two will resolve to something like this:

`<img src=”https://yourwebsite.com/wp-contents/uploads/2007/10/myimage.jpg&#8221; alt=”” height=”” width=”” />’

I entered “2007/10” for example purpose the dates would actually change to reflect when each post was created. Also “myimage.jpg” would actually be the image name that you had entered in the custom field, which of course will have to actually match the uploaded image name and file extension.

Hope this helps,
Chet

The Wysiwyg editor used by WordPress is Javascript based (most are). These types of formatting issues are fairly common so it’s not so much a WordPress thing.

I would suggest if at all possible creating your posts inside of WordPress or perhaps disabled the Wysiwyg editor and instead use the visual editor this can be done in the ‘Users’ section of your admin panel.

Chet

Dwellogy,
Have a look here:
https://www.cosmicblend.net/testspace/generalwp/index.php

This is a default install of wordpress, with the theme that you are using.

Perhaps starting from scratch based of the stylesheet used here will help you move forward?

Hope this helps,
Chet

Hi Dwellogy,
That’s a little odd, I had actually installed the template you are using and made the changes that I had suggested. Perhaps there is some other changes that you hacve made which are causing this?

Chet

Hi myblogz,
I would suggest at the very least working with version 2.2, I have set-up a couple of 2.3 installs lately and haven’t run into any major problems.

Chet

Hi hatt,
Try this it may be what you are looking for.

Chet

Hi Dwellogy,
At the moment you are using this bit of CSS:

div#content { width: 75%;
               margin: 0 202px 0 202px;
               padding: 20px;
               background: #efefef; }

Try using this bit of CSS instead:

div#content { width: auto;
               margin: 0 10px 0 202px;
               padding: 20px;
               background: #efefef; }

Hope this helps.
Chet

What about using a different style for your last post? Let’s imagine that you have this code currently:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post; ?>
<div class="post">
my post content
<div class="divider">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

and that you limit your post numbers per page to 5. Considering this you could set-up your code like this instead:

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post; ?>
<?php $postclass = ($post == $posts[5]) ? 'entry-5' : 'entry'; ?>
<div class="<?php echo $postclass; ?>">
my post content
<div class="divider">&nbsp;</div>
</div>
<?php endwhile; ?>

The results should be that posts 1 thru 4 will use “entry” as their class, while post 5 would use “entry-5”. Then yor stylesheet could use something like this:

.entry-5 .divider { display:none; }

I haven’t actually tried this myself, however a post I was reading here is where the thought originated from.

Hope this helps.

Hi,
Have you tried editing the functions.php file inside your themes directory? In particular you could add the following code:

function widget_mytheme_categories() {
?>
<?php wp_list_categories('exclude=5&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>
<?php
}
if (function_exists('register_sidebar_widget') )
    register_sidebar_widget(__('Categories'), 'widget_mytheme_categories');

Hope this helps a little.