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Cool thanks tamilsweet, I’ll give that a try.

I think it might be the permalink I need to alter in some way but I’m not quite sure how to do that?

Thanks for getting back to me Samboll, Ive managed to edit the styles to the widgets ok now, I was just a little unsure as to why changing any of the content in the sidebar.php file had no effect on any of the widgets on my page and wondered where the content was being pulled from?

Hey thanks for taking the time to explain it all to me t31os, it’s all gonna be really helpful to know for my project.

Awesome, that has done the trick! Thanks very much for your help t31os, you were right on the money.

Sorry that post may not have made much sense. I have put ‘respect’ as the key for some reason when I meant to put ‘birthday’ so the code will actually look like this:

<div id="bday" style="background-color: red; padding: 20px;">
<?php $custom_field = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'birthday', true);
 if($custom_field !== '') {
	echo $custom_field;
	} ?>
</div>

That’s awesome Samboll, many thanks for all your help.

Hey thanks for getting back to me Samboll. Does that mean I should really move wordpress to a test folder while I get it all working, then move it to my main directory when it’s ready to go live. My problem is that index.html is my site’s holding page so if I get rid of it everyone will be able to see me testing my site as I build it as index.php will become the home page.

Ok, I did a little poking around and found I could change back my settings through PhpMyAdmin. Phew, all back to normal now!