dave

Setting the background-position to “top” technically moves it “down” and aligns to the “top”, and “bottom” moves it “up” and aligns the “bottom”, sure.

The particulars of which value I chose had nothing to do with my problem, though.

I seemed to have figured it out. Thanks anyways.

…sorry, another quick question:

On the blog page of the site I previously posted, the sidebar is being pushed to the bottom, whereas on other pages it’s in the right spot. I’m using the same page template for the blog as for the other pages. I checked the divs and things around it, so I’m sure this is another little thing I’m overlooking.

Any ideas? Thanks!

perfect! thanks so much. just a tired oversight. i appreciate it.

Haha, thanks. Still working on the site, clearly.

Must not have cleared the cache that time.
Many thanks.

Can you think of anything that might inhibit either of those from working?

Site: https://nicholasandrewfilms.com/2010/12/home-holidays/

Here’s another one for you (I’m sure I’m just burnt out from thinking about that for the past couple of hours): How about a single post page? Will that also pull from index.php, or rather the single.php that I assume. Either way, it ain’t workin’ ??

*kicks dead horse*

Ah, well there we are. I needed to think of it backwards, ie. use a page template for my static home page(or any of my static pages that match it) instead of the blog page.

Thanks.

Doesn’t WP use home.php before index.php? Or vice versa? And couldn’t I use that index-and-home-are-both-for-the-same-theme as a [somewhat]simple solution?

I would, except it needs to be different than the regular template index.php, that’s the point.

Mm, something they should distinguish (or do and i haven’t dug that far, haha).

Anyways, I changed the structure of my custom page template from that of page.php to index.php, and nothing changed. Is that what you meant? If not, then how do I force the selected static blog page to use the template that I want it to?

The WordPress codex stated that for pages/templates it checks for:

-The Page’s selected “Page Template”
-page.php
-index.php

in that order. So shouldn’t page.php work before index.php does?

I modeled the static blog page after the page.php file. Shouldn’t this work just as well?