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That’s awesome, thanks so much. Not exactly what I envision for the finished product but much closer than where I was. The rest will be a learning experience for me. Couldn’t have done it without you. Thanks for your help.

That is sooo close. Can’t thank you enough. One last thing…

I can work with that frame and make it look the way I want it to. The concept you gave me is exactly what I was trying to figure out. I left that change in place as you gave it to me so you can see the result. Now, the change frames the whole thing but left justifies it on the screen instead of centering it. Can you take one more look and help me to center the whole thing so I don’t have all that empty background on the right? at your convenience. You’ve already helped a bunch. I feel like an amateur here. I’ve been coding for many many years but this is my first dive into php and wordpress so I’m going through a frustrating learning curve.

That is almost what I’m looking for. Is there a variation that will include the header and footer? I want to frame the whole thing

Thank you for that Lime Canvas

Can’t thank you enough for pointing me to that duplicator plugin. I spent 5 days beating my head against the monitor over that one. The plugin solved it for me in about 15 minutes!

Thanks for the reply. I’ll try that free plugin first and see if that does the trick

cloned database I meant, not closed.

I wanted to play with this on my own before aaking for help again but…

I’ve activated the “content on left” option in twentyeleven which gives me a right sidebar. Then I go back and try to find where that right side bar is implemented and bypass it with:

if ( is_home() ) {
// Do nothing and return to the code
} else {
// All the wp code for the sidebar here
}

I’ve tried doing this in sidebar.php, theme-funtions.php in the includes folder and a few other spots. It doesn’t generate an error but it continues to allocate space for the sidebar on my home page which is what I’m trying to eliminate. Basically I’m trying to preserve the one column look on the home page while having a sidebar for adsense everywhere else.

Thanks again. I’ll leave this thread open until I have a chance to implement the change later today. Great support resource you folks have here!

That seems simple enough. Now where would I find the code that diaplays the sidebar? I’m assuming that if I nest it in the “else” side of that statement I’ll be good to go. I hate to sound stupid but after 25 years of coding this is my first effort with wordpress and php so I’m feeling pretty clueless. I’ve been a programmer since the abacus, but my knowledge of php is limited to spelling it!

Since this thread is still open…

I want to use adsense so I enabled a right sidebar in my twentyeleven theme. What I would like to do is have that sidebar available on all the pages and my blog but NOT on the Home page. Is that an easy answer or should I start another thread? I’m working in a test environment right now so I haven’t implemented the sidebar on the production site yet.

Thanks for your help. I’ll definitely be looking at that link.

You rock! I put those three little lines in my child theme and it fixed it right up. I spent all day on that yesterday! I’ll update the site as soon as I redo the banner. Thanks.

One more question…

What is the significance of the !important keyword and can you recommend a good tut for firebug. I can see where knowing firebug will be a tremendous help. It would have been nice to use firebug to isolate that css entry.

?? I did install firebug. Still learning how to use that one too! I seemed to have been able to get rid of most of the white apace as I can put the title right under the menu. But when I eliminated the title on the home page in favor of a custom menu it still leaves a big space between the menu and my banner.