Comments on: Customizing your WordPress Sidebar http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/ Life in Colors Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:57:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jesse Luna http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-6965 Jesse Luna Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:34:54 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-6965 Thanks, used some of your styling tips on my site! Thanks, used some of your styling tips on my site!

]]> By: greven http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-6510 greven Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:58:09 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-6510 You're welcome, Doug. :) You’re welcome, Doug. :)

]]> By: Doug C. http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-6509 Doug C. Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:31:31 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-6509 Greven, thanks for your help in figuring out how to style my recent comments widget. Appreciate it. Greven, thanks for your help in figuring out how to style my recent comments widget. Appreciate it.

]]> By: greven http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-6492 greven Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:25:03 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-6492 Hi Doug. :) This is a pretty "old" tutorial, well it's not old but isn't something I'm not using on my current theme since I built it from zero. But I can try to help you. So you just want to style some specific widgets? It kinda depends on how your theme CSS and XHTML is structured, that is, if the output of the Widgets give you a unique selector that you can work up with. What I advise you is to use a tool like <a href="http://getfirebug.com/" rel="nofollow">Firebug</a>, if you aren't using it already, it's really helpful to deconstruct website styling and structure. From what I could gather in your website, the Widget your are trying to style is the Tabbed Recent Comments one, right? It's the one that doesn't share the same style with the others. I could retrieve that that widget has a Div Wrapper with a class: "menu tabbed". So all you have to do is style that widget selecting it using that class. Try it now and tell me what you could come up with. :) Hope I helped... Hi Doug. :) This is a pretty “old” tutorial, well it’s not old but isn’t something I’m not using on my current theme since I built it from zero.

But I can try to help you. So you just want to style some specific widgets? It kinda depends on how your theme CSS and XHTML is structured, that is, if the output of the Widgets give you a unique selector that you can work up with.

What I advise you is to use a tool like Firebug, if you aren’t using it already, it’s really helpful to deconstruct website styling and structure.

From what I could gather in your website, the Widget your are trying to style is the Tabbed Recent Comments one, right? It’s the one that doesn’t share the same style with the others. I could retrieve that that widget has a Div Wrapper with a class: “menu tabbed”. So all you have to do is style that widget selecting it using that class. Try it now and tell me what you could come up with. :)

Hope I helped…

]]> By: Doug C. http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-6491 Doug C. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:50:43 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-6491 You see, in my theme the sidebar appearance is controlled in the CSS by a class called "side_roll". I have a widget installed for comments called Get Recent Comments, and the styling for that is controlled in the widget PHP files by an id called "get_recent_comments_wrap". I understand from your tutorial that I could style the appearance of my sidebar widgets by changing the existing values for "side_roll", which is located in my theme's main stylesheet. However, if I do that, then it will change the appearance of ALL my sidebar widgets, since they are all controlled by the "side_roll". This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, but I do have some widgets I have styled myself which are still contained within the "side_roll" parameters. It would be nice to know how to go about styling some of my sidebar widgets so they would all have a certain unique appearance. That's what I was hoping to discover when I came here. If you know of any tutorials on how to accomplish this I would appreciate the links. Thank you. You see, in my theme the sidebar appearance is controlled in the CSS by a class called “side_roll”. I have a widget installed for comments called Get Recent Comments, and the styling for that is controlled in the widget PHP files by an id called “get_recent_comments_wrap”.

I understand from your tutorial that I could style the appearance of my sidebar widgets by changing the existing values for “side_roll”, which is located in my theme’s main stylesheet.

However, if I do that, then it will change the appearance of ALL my sidebar widgets, since they are all controlled by the “side_roll”. This wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing, but I do have some widgets I have styled myself which are still contained within the “side_roll” parameters.

It would be nice to know how to go about styling some of my sidebar widgets so they would all have a certain unique appearance. That’s what I was hoping to discover when I came here. If you know of any tutorials on how to accomplish this I would appreciate the links.

Thank you.

]]> By: Doug C. http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-6490 Doug C. Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:13:13 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-6490 Hmm, got to "The same can be done to the other classes generated in the other Widgets (like the Tag Cloud, Post Categories, etc…)." and then it just ended. I was hoping for more. Hmm, got to “The same can be done to the other classes generated in the other Widgets (like the Tag Cloud, Post Categories, etc…).” and then it just ended. I was hoping for more.

]]> By: rakesh solanki http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-6284 rakesh solanki Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:31:21 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-6284 I've seen a different tutorial here related to theme customization, but it works, thanks I’ve seen a different tutorial here related to theme customization, but it works, thanks

]]> By: greven http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-5678 greven Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:02:47 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-5678 Hi Linus! :] I don't use K2 myself since I redesigned my webpage from scratch. K2 is a very nice framework, only problem I see with it, is that it sometimes breaks when a new Wordpress update is out. That gave me a lot of headaches, so I decided to make a theme that didn't need to use any kind of theme framework. Now to your question. If I remember right, K2 has its own Widget system. So in the K2 Widget section, where you can drag the Widgets you want to the Sidebar, you should click your About Widget, it should have an option with a list of Homepage, Pages, Posts, and you should tick each one individually so that widget shows on every page that you have. You can see an example <a href="http://blog.strategy11.com/display-widgets/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Hope that helps you with your question. Hi Linus! :]

I don’t use K2 myself since I redesigned my webpage from scratch. K2 is a very nice framework, only problem I see with it, is that it sometimes breaks when a new WordPress update is out. That gave me a lot of headaches, so I decided to make a theme that didn’t need to use any kind of theme framework.

Now to your question. If I remember right, K2 has its own Widget system. So in the K2 Widget section, where you can drag the Widgets you want to the Sidebar, you should click your About Widget, it should have an option with a list of Homepage, Pages, Posts, and you should tick each one individually so that widget shows on every page that you have. You can see an example here.

Hope that helps you with your question.

]]> By: Linus http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-5677 Linus Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:01:13 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-5677 Hi, I have a Q about the K2 theme Im using and I think you know what to do. I want to use the "K2 About" on all my pages/sidebar (not only frontpage). Do you know how to do it? I have tried to find an answer everywhere and now Im asking you. :) /Linus Hi, I have a Q about the K2 theme Im using and I think you know what to do. I want to use the “K2 About” on all my pages/sidebar (not only frontpage). Do you know how to do it? I have tried to find an answer everywhere and now Im asking you. :)
/Linus

]]> By: CSS designer http://www.paintbits.com/webdesign/customizing-your-wordpress-sidebar/#comment-2623 CSS designer Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:03:23 +0000 http://www.paintbits.com/?p=175#comment-2623 How can we add scaleable background graphics to the sidebar? How can we add scaleable background graphics to the sidebar?

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