James

Yeah, our shortcodes we want to use only return text, no HTML involved there, so I can understand disabling them as such.

I’ll look into your suggestion and see what we can come up with, thanks.

I was just wondering about the option for plugin development. I developed a simple plugin recently that created an options page and let blog owners select text and background colors for their comments, so they wouldn’t have to edit the stylesheet directly.

I ended up just placing those new rules inside the wp_head as you described previously.

Alright, that’s what I had previously done.

I thought there was a more clean and efficient way other plugins normally add style to the pages, guess not.

Anyway, thanks.

That was actually one of the first places I checked, and there were barely any full-time positions listed there. The majority of them were project based which you could find on most freelance sites.

Thanks for the tip Patrick, I’ll check out Odesk.

I should state too that I already found a few Freelance projects on Freelancer.com, those weren’t too bad to find. But they were project-based, one time situations that only earn income once.

I was just looking for some more long-term positions organizations may have available with WP, as I just recently gradated from college and considered looking for careers that deal with WP, basically.

OK Sorry, never mind about that styling questions there, me just being silly ;).

The only thing right now I’m working on is getting the second sidebar to appear on the right hand side of the screen (It’s just below it now). I guess I’ll just play around for now to see if I can figure it out, if not, I’ll bump this thread to ask for assistance.

I’ve looked over the code you gave me once more, and I noticed it doesn’t have this closing it anywhere:

<?php endif; ?>

I’m suppose to have this in the new page php somewhere, like this, so it works:

<?php

/*
Template Name: Welcome Page
*/
?>

<?php
	get_header(); ?>

<div id="widecontent">
<div id="col-left">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-left') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div id="col-right">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-right') ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div>

<?php
	get_footer(); ?>

But I still get the styling conflictions (bullet points, micro-fonts, etc.) you mentioned before, and all the widgets are still on one left column.

Am I suppose to edit my style.css or something to insert and edit those divs to get them to look OK?

Hmmm, just seems odd that mine still get syntax errors, could it have something to do with being connected to the main index template php file, or maybe sidebar.php not reading something. I’m not sure, I’m kind of tired at the moment so I’m just thinking of other possible areas of my theme conflicting or something.

Thanks for all the help so far, Joni :).

Well, I already tried adding just the code you gave me:

<?php

/*
Template Name: Welcome Page
*/
?>

<div id="widecontent">
<div id="col-left">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-left') ) : ?>
</div><!-- /col-left -->
<div id="col-right">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-right') ) : ?>
</div><!-- /col-right -->
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div><!-- /widecontent -->

Then I tried as you just suggested now:

<?php

/*
Template Name: Welcome Page
*/
?>

<?php
	get_header();
	$alwayssidebars = get_option('royale_always_show_sidebars');
	if ($alwayssidebars) {
		if (get_option('royale_sidebar1_left')) include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
		if (get_option('royale_3columns') && get_option('royale_sidebar2_left')) {
			include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php');
		}
	}
?>

<div id="widecontent">
<div id="col-left">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-left') ) : ?>
</div><!-- /col-left -->
<div id="col-right">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-right') ) : ?>
</div><!-- /col-right -->
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div><!-- /widecontent -->

And both still get syntax errors, specifically lines like this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/username/public_html/lightningshock/wp-content/themes/royale-10/welcome.php on line 29

Alright, cool.

I’m not using any sidebars besides the new ones you created for the template, so what exactly is the code that shouldn’t “be there”?

Sidebar code from the headers and footers? (Because I tried removing it, to no avail.)

Or fro the functions.php? (Because I don’t want to go into editing certain parts I’m not sure with, which’ll probably give admin errors again too.)

Thanks, I’m not having any errors on the admin side anymore. I’ve spent an hour or two trying to get this welcome.php page I created to work properly, but it’s always giving my homepage syntax errors.

Here’s my original page template, which works fine:

<?php
	get_header();
	$alwayssidebars = get_option('royale_always_show_sidebars');
	if ($alwayssidebars) {
		if (get_option('royale_sidebar1_left')) include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
		if (get_option('royale_3columns') && get_option('royale_sidebar2_left')) {
			include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php');
		}
	}
?>
	<td id="content" class="<?php echo ($alwayssidebars ? 'narrow' : 'wide'); ?>column">

    <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
		<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
		<h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
			<div class="entry">
				<?php the_content('<p class="serif">'. __('Read the rest of this page','royale') .' &raquo;</p>'); ?>

				<?php link_pages('<p><strong>'. __('Pages','royale') .':</strong> ', '</p>', 'number'); ?>

			</div>
			<div style="clear: both;"></div>
		</div>
	  <?php endwhile; endif; ?>
	<?php edit_post_link(__('Edit this page','royale'), '<p>', '</p>'); ?>

	</td>

<?php
	if ($alwayssidebars) {
		if (!get_option('royale_sidebar1_left')) include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
		if (get_option('royale_3columns') && !get_option('royale_sidebar2_left')) {
			include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php');
		}
	}

	get_footer();
?>

And here’s an example of what I’ve tried:

<?php

/*
Template Name: Welcome Page
*/
?>

<?php
	get_header();
	$alwayssidebars = get_option('royale_always_show_sidebars');
	if ($alwayssidebars) {
		if (get_option('royale_sidebar1_left')) include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
		if (get_option('royale_3columns') && get_option('royale_sidebar2_left')) {
			include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php');
		}
	}
?>

<div id="widecontent">
<div id="col-left">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-left') ) : ?>
</div><!-- /col-left -->
<div id="col-right">
<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('col-right') ) : ?>
</div><!-- /col-right -->
<div class="clearer"></div>
</div><!-- /widecontent -->

<?php
	if ($alwayssidebars) {
		if (!get_option('royale_sidebar1_left')) include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php');
		if (get_option('royale_3columns') && !get_option('royale_sidebar2_left')) {
			include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar2.php');
		}
	}

	get_footer();
?>

It seems like no matter where I place that code within my new template, I get syntax errors. Is there anything I seem to be missing to display these new sidebars properly?

Well, I thought all sidebars use widgets by default, so yeah, either way, mine does use widgets already. I found this first line of code in my functions.php specifically:

<?php
  if (function_exists('register_sidebar')) {
    register_sidebar();
    register_sidebar();
    register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Royale Top'));
    register_sidebar(array('name'=>'Royale Bottom'));
  }
  load_theme_textdomain('royale');

So maybe I’m suppose to edit this and integrate the new sidebar you posted somehow, rather than just flat-out adding to it.

The code which you posted earlier “is” what I put in my functions.php, and it gave the admin errors, so what’s the code I’m suppose to ditch? As I said, I want to make sure I put your code in the right place within the functions.php file.

My theme still has sidebars, but I just turned them off for my posts and pages (my theme gives you an option to do that).

I placed your first code block into my welcome.php file, so I’m pretty sure that’s working OK, but I can’t tell for certain (or edit anything) until I get my functions.php file correct.

Also, my site’s link is on my member page’s website field. And I’m using the royale 1.3 WP theme:
https://www.onehertz.com/portfolio/wordpress/

That sounds great, like the perfect thing I’d want to do.

I should say though that I disabled sidebars throughout my theme (All the pages and posts take up the whole screen-“wide”), so will these code snippets override that certain function? And will I be able to control these new widgets from the “Manage > Pages” section or the “Design > Widgets” section of the admin panel?

I’m still using the headers and footers though, so no differences there.

Also, I wanted to make sure I’m adding this code into the right places, as when I tried to update my functions.php file, it gave my entire administration panel parsing errors (probably because I entered into the wrong place). So does the first block of page code replace my entire welcome.php file? And where is the appropriate place to enter the second block within functions.php? (As I don’t want to get errors again.)

(I totally hear you about the household chores to, website administration is 100X better :).)

Heh ?? …he doesn’t post links, just thoughts and comments on the article.

The thing is though one of his email addresses is new and another is old, and the old one is fine, the new one is giving him problems.

I have “membership” disabled for other reasons, and there’s really no reason for them to sign up for an account on my blog.