So I spent most of the day trying to get another sidebar into my theme. You can see I found the style.css file and moved things to accommodate the sidebar.

I tried adding list-style:none in the stylesheet.css and it’s not working maybe it’s gotta go somewhere else? Figured it out! @beerandnosh was trying to figure this out at the same time I was. and by looking at his site I realized the liststyle none had to go in a different spot.

and now I want to add a second sidebar. which involves creating another sidebar.php and I gave it a shot, although I don’t know how to put it on the left. It’s just not working for me.

alright so I got everything moved around and ready for the second sidebar. I just can’t get it to show up now.
I edited the index.php to pull in the sidebar2.php
I edited the functions.php to make them dynamic n’ shtuff
and my sidebar2.php looks just like the orignal sidebar.php <-could that be the prob?
and finally it shows up in the widgets and I added stuff to it. It just doesn’t materialize on the page anywhere.
What do I have to do to the style.css to make this work? I couldn’t find anything I’ve been googaling all day. I’m done for now.

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3 Responses to “Trying to edit my wordpress theme, any advice?”

  1. Mike Says:

    Hey, great post, very well written. You should blog more about this.

  2. Daniel Frei Says:

    Your right sidebar’s css prolly has a Float:right in it. Try adding Float:left to sidebar2.

    Also, Firefox’s Firebug plugin is a wonderful thing with CSS

  3. admin Says:

    Thanks D. I tried that with the existing sidebar and it floats off of the content or the right side of the page. so it always stays on the right. I’m just going to go with making this content area bigger. I think it’ll look a lot better.

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