edwardBe

Hi,

I’m having the same problem, and was able to remove the sidebar, but my style.css doesn’t have the div#content{} element, so I can’t find a way to spread the rest of the content.

The size of the content seems to be determined dynamically by functions within the .php files, but I can’t find where to edit them.

Thanks,

Edward

It’s not that you failed to comment adequately. It’s that I just don’t know php, so my mind stops functioning when I see the words “case” or “switch.”

I was a programmer in another lifetime, but fortunately the dinosaurs ate me before I could reproduce.

That is even more incomprehensible than the Codex code. I installed the emporium theme so that I could see where the tags were entered. It looks easy, but I can’t see creating that function myself and then somehow creating some kind of dialog box to enter the keywords.

I guess I am going to have to look for a plug-in.

Thanks anyway.

Thanks. I did that right after making the post and was actually able to figure it out. Thanks again, though!

Do you know enough php to be able to dynamically create keyword meta tags and description tags in that file so that they vary from post to post? I can’t understand the code in the Codex on how to do it.

That was so simple my face is burning! Thank you so much!

The search bar is usually a widget and you can remove it from the sidebar, but if nothing else is in the sidebar, it will still show up, so you may have to put a text widget in the sidebar and leave it empty of text.

I am also new and this is something I read somewhere else and it worked for me to get a blank sidebar.

Indeed, I certainly don’t have any problem with the admin bar as seen in your screen shot. Thanks for the informative chat. It was nice. Bye for now.

I understand what you are saying, but are you talking about the blue box like on Nick’s site, or the horizontal bar that runs above the content? The blue box blocks access to content. How could that be helpful?

It isn’t my website, but thanks for the detailed reply. I don’t know if Nick would care, but it wouldn’t hurt to drop him a line through his contact page.

It may be that he is getting emails complaining about it and doesn’t know how to deal with it…

The idea of an admin bar for individual users seems superfluous to me. All they have to do is click on the profile link at the upper right of the page to get access to the admin functions.

And to have it both immovable and un-closeable unless it is disabled through the aforementioned profile link is very thoughtless.

Since it has no visible name, I was completely unable to figure out what it is nor how to get rid of it except by logging out. Just think if it was covering the part of the admin page where the checkboxes are! What a Catch-22! “You now have to log back out after making a comment in order to be able to see the links the admin bar is covering and then log back in when you see something else you wish to comment on.”

It should have an “X” on it like all too few of the hundreds of equally irritating little pop-ups like those “share” boxes on so many web pages some of which can’t be closed except by navigating away from the page.

The admin bar seems to have come along with the latest version of WP. I like it on my websites when I am logged in due to the increased functionality it provides, but once again, I think having it imposed on ordinary users is dumb!

Sorry, I don’t have a convenient way to host a screen shot image.

If you go to https://www.nickscipio.com/pod and register and then set up your profile to show the admin bar, it should show up after you refresh the profile page and then refresh the pod page. Several other users have also complained about it.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS AN ADULT SITE AND HAS SOME VERY HARD CORE IMAGES ON IT ON SOME OF THE PAGES!

If you are comfortable with porn and you have a throw-away yahoo or google email address I can send the screen shot to you that doesn’t include any offensive images…

I found out it is called the “admin bar.” If you enable the two checkboxes under “Show admin bar,” in an individual user’s profile, it will pop up in the upper left corner and can’t be moved, so there is no way to click any links that are under it.

Trying to link to an example won’t work because it is dependent upon a user’s profile for a specific WordPress website. I could send you a screen shot if you are really interested.

If you are WP admin for a site and are logged in, it shows up as a strip along the top of the Window and apparently replaces the old “edit this.”

If you are a user on a site that allows or requires logins to post comments, it shows as a big version of the blue box with a white “G” like the ones that show up next to a person’s name who hasn’t formally chosen a gravatar.