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As the codex says, you can put <?php the_meta(); ?> inside the code for your post (The Loop, most likely found in the file titled “Single Post” on your Theme Editor page) and it will pull the Custom Fields for you. Styling them is in the CSS under the “postmeta” div (I believe, I know it’s listed in the codex) to get the colors and borders, etc. that you want.

Positioning is another animal that I’m not too sure on, but that should be enough to help you experiment a bit.

For the record, I have been running a number of WP blogs (admittedly not with nearly as many page requests) on Dreamhost for over 3 years and never had a problem other than “standard” downtime.

This should help, and it’s pretty simple.

https://alistapart.com/articles/randomizer/

all <li> tags must come inside one of the tags listed (usually <ul>, for “unordered list”, a list of items with bullet points, or just a list, depending on the styling.)

So, in your HTML (most likely the “sidebar.php” file, or something of that nature), you need to put <ul> </ul> around your <li> tags.

Ah, it was me (helper, not helpee) that couldn’t find that line, as I was looking for the whole #0066cc. And actually I didn’t realize that a hex that wasn’t all the same digits could be shrunk down like that. Makes sense, though.

I guess ya learn something every day. ??

Try #0066cc to get that bright blue. I’m not seeing it anywhere in the CSS, so I’m not sure how it’s creating it in the links, but it’s showing up in your color information with the Web Developer extension. And #b85b5a is that red you’re talking about replacing.

In your CSS (style.css) file, you’ll have lines such as this:

#content a { color: #000033; }

Where the “a” shows that it’s dealing with links, giving links in the content div the #000033 (or whatever) color.

You’ll also likely see something like:

#content a:hover { color: #330000; }

Which is giving the link a color when it’s hovered over (or “rollover” color).

Find where your titles are being given their color (most likely something with “.posttitle” in it) and add:

#DIVNAME a:visited {color: #XXXXXX; }

Where the “#DIVNAME” matches the other id’s for your posttitle, and the #XXXXXX matches the color of the non-hovered link.

If you provide a link to your site and/or CSS file, I can probably find what’s setting it specifically.

You’ve got an <h2> tag with a space in it at the top of your content <div>.

Remove <h2>&nbsp;</h2> and see if that fixes it. If it doesn’t totally bring the image to the top of the page, check the margins and padding on your img tags in CSS.

Formatting Date and Time

Basically, you want to go into your index.php file and in the post body, find the code that looks like this:

<?php the_time() ?>

..and delete it.

It can also be reformatted (there’s a link in the above Codex link I posted), but if you want it gone, you can just delete it.

Check the “div.post” parts of your CSS. There are a lot of margin specifications in there, and I’d say it’s pretty likely that’s where your spacing is coming from. I didn’t see anything in there for blockquotes, but adding something like this might not hurt:

blockquote {margin: ??px;}

It looks like a lot of your spacing is coming from the <p> tags. Play with some margin sizes (or maybe add a funky-colored border first to see what each piece of CSS is affecting if you can’t see it on first glance.)

Make a file for the particular sidebar you’re looking for for a page, saving it in your ./wp-content/themes/ThemeFolder directory.

Then on the page’s template, yes, you’d replace the get_sidebar with <?php include('newsidebar.php') ?>.

Page Templates

You can then replace the “get_sidebar” with an include to the sidebar you’d like to have, or no sidebar at all.

Great job!

I’m no expert, but I think that it’s failing because you have <ul> and </ul> back to back with nothing in between. (Lines 133 & 134) Take those out, or put some <li> information in the middle, and you should be set.

Ah, I should have cleared that up. I was trying to tweak a site for someone through my wordpress install. If that’s what would cause that, it makes sense and is all good.

Thanks!