About Page at top of Andreas04 sidebar?
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Hello. Right now my blog is listed as “private”, if that impedes assistance I apologise – but it’s a general question hopefully.
I’m using Andreas04 (I like the flex width and three columns). What I didn’t expect, and can’t figure out how to control, is the appearance of the complete contents of my “about” page at the top of the sidebar on the right. There are two sidebars of course; my about page text spans both, apparently existing in a mystery text widget of it’s own. I think this is kinda cool frankly, but it makes having a link above to an about page pretty much irrelevant and silly.
Can I take control of this spot and put alternate text there? Can I otherwise eliminate the “about” page link and thus control it using the about page but not having to suffer the same text next to itself on a page?
Please and thanks!?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Pages > Edit: hover over title of About page, click Quick Edit, change “Slug” to anything other than “about”, click Update Page.
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Cool! Thanks! That did it.
Care to offer a brief follow up on “what the heck is a slug”?
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Ah never mind, I’ll figure it out. I followed to your blog – great stuff!!
Thanks again. -
” Slug
A slug is a few words that describe a post or a page. Slugs are usually a URL friendly version of the post title (which has been automatically generated by WordPress), but a slug can be anything you like. Slugs are meant to be used with permalinks as they help describe what the content at the URL is.Example post permalink: http://wordpress.org/development/2006/06/wordpress-203/
The slug for that post is “wordpress-203”. “
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Thanks timethief…
Maybe you can help with this challenge of mine…
I kindof like having the option to post the contents of a (small) page above the sidebars. I make this happen using the “about” slug in Andreas04. But I can’t figure out how to have this occur and at the same time NOT show the same designated page in the menubar. If I child this page out to any other page then it disappears from the top of the sidebar.
This makes no sense to me. Why would anyone want a permanent link to a page that is permanently in place???
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As I showed above, the contents of the About page will only show in the sidebar if its slug is “about”. If you turn it into a child page, the slug acquires the parent-page slug as well, so it won’t work.
If you want some sidebar text that won’t be accessible via a header page tab as well, just put it in a text widget.
If you want it above the other sidebar items, spanning both columns, drag a text widget to Sidebar 1 top position, and write the text this way:
<div style="width:200%;"> TEXT_HERE </div>In that case you’ll also need to push the items of the second sidebar downwards; drag a text widget to Sidebar 2 top position and put this in it:
<div style="height:Nem;"></div>
Where I’ve written N, you must write a number; actual number depends on the amount of text you put in the Sidebar 1 widget.As to whether it makes sense having the same text in a page and in the sidebar, well, I agree it doesn’t – especially when you click the About header tab and get the same content twice, side by side! So, instead of all this fuss, how about switching to Andreas09 or another 3-column theme?
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Thanks again panag.. I could switch to Andreas09 and may yet still, but I still won’t be able to accomplish the 2-column span text without the “fuss”. What is really strange is that this behaviour is default. Makes no sense, and is default… weird.
When I set up Andreas09 I get horizontal lines the colour of my text across the header banner – looks kinda funny. I’ll keep feeling things out. I’m not afraid of coding for customisation going forward, but right now I’m still feeling my way around and trying to understand all the default behaviour that is available.
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My understanding is that px is fixed while em will change if you zoom in or out; am I wrong?
No, you’re not wrong but that applies to text only.
a) When you zoom in a page, the layout will stay in proportion to its normal view*, whereas if defined in ems, the layout will get all messed up.
b) Defining heights, paddings and margins in ems will be affected by the type of font you’re defining for your overall layout. Let’s say, at first, you want to use Verdana… you set your margins in ems, but later you decided to change your font to Times, you’d have to go through your whole layout and adjust the margins accordingly. To me that’s just unnecessary work.
Hopes this clarifies it.
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*Modern web browsers handle zooming a lot better than a few years back. Even if you set text in px, the text will be increased accordingly. That’s why many web designers are using this as an excused to go back to the bad habit of using px for text units instead of ems or %. This is a topic for later. I may write something about it on my blog. -
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