justinbaeder

Beel, you are awesome.
For people not familiar with phpMyAdmin, here’s what you do (that includes me – I just clicked around until I found it).
In your webhost’s control panel, find phpMyAdmin (in cPanel; It’s called DB WebAdmin in Plesk).
In the left frame, scroll down to wp-comments and click on it.
In the right frame of the resulting page, click “SQL.” A text box will appear, and that’s where you can paste the commands Beel said to above. Click “Go,” and you’re done.

Zadu – On further reflection, I do like the fact that individual lists like the archives are rendered as lists. That makes sense, since it is list data. If everything were made into separate lists, that would be great.
What I don’t like is having the entire sidebar rendered as one huge nested list, because that means you can’t have any block-level elements in your sidebar. Span works for some things, but you don’t get consistent widths with it. For example, in my sidebar, I have a CSS class called “sidetitle” that I use as a heading. It has a gray background and a border. If I make this a span instead of a div, they all come out different widths, which looks terrible.
It also means you need five or six CSS tricks if you don’t want the sidebar to appear nested, since the lists occur at various nesting levels (e.g. the get_links() feature, which nests the links under the categories you select).

You can also try
‘margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
text-indent:0;’
Or manually remove all the list stuff.

Huh. Back after a month. I’ve since implemented it differently:
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
text-indent:0;
That seems to work fine.

reds-
If you really want to just move the key PHP into an existing template, you need the page headers from index.php as well as The Loop.

NuclearMoose-
Keep in mind, almost all .asp and ColdFusion sites use ampersands in the URLs. We can’t control the URLs of the people we link to.

mark-
I don’t really know PHP; could you give an example of what it would look like with the updated code?
Vohiyaar-
That can be fixed by using the following as the login link:
https://www.yoursite.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=index.php
You don’t get the fancy-dancy text that changes from login to logout depending on your login status, but it works, and it saves clicks.

There’s actually more to it if you want it to work cross-browser:
If the name of your links bar is “right” like it is on one of my sites:
#right ul {
list-style: none;
margin-left: 0;
padding-left: 1em;
text-indent: -1em;
}#right ul ul {
margin-left:0;
list-style: none;
padding-left: 1em;
text-indent: -2em;
}
IE and Mozilla interpret padding and indents differently; this way accomodates for both.

The 30px padding is just to give some space between the columns, as I currently don’t have boxes around them.
If you’re using Firefox or Safari, you’ve probably noticed that the books section is way too indented. It doesn’t look this way in IE, and I’m trying to figure out what to do about it, as the li tags are hardcoded by WP.

For future reference, you can do this in the CSS – it is possible. Look in other threads in this forum.

I removed the appearance of the numbers entirely. See my stylesheet

Have you tried clearing your browser cache/temporary internet files? I had the same problem at my school (I’m a teacher), and it didn’t help, but it’s worth a shot.

As for readability, I would strongly recommend putting the sidebar on the right if you’re going to have a sidebar that wide.

I have a 3-col layout at urbanmonastery.com and my other site (click my name). The css file is wp-layout.css in both cases. If you want the PHP source, let me know via the email on my site.

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