Creating Columns

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  saumarezsmith2014 · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 7:10 pm

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  Hi!

  Im using Ryu and am trying to put a column in – how do I do that?

  Also, is there a possibility of adding a ‘text box’ to the right on the screen if needed?

  Thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 7:13 pm

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  Are you suggesting you want to redesign a theme that is not designed to have a sidebar by adding a sidebar to it? There is no free way to do that and it is not easily done at all. If that is the case then choosing a 2 column theme would make more sense. 192 Two Columns WordPress Themes are found here http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/features/two-columns/

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  saumarezsmith2014 · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 7:19 pm

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  no not at all. I want to put 2 images next to each other and thought that having 2 columns would be a solution.

  on a separate issue, I wanted to add a text box with some information.

  Any ideas? ive seen references to plus-ins but dont think those are available. is there a widget that would do that job?

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  timethief · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 7:22 pm

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  Hi there,

  The alignment icons in the WordPress editor are for aligning text; they are not for aligning images. http://en.support.wordpress.com/visual-editor/#alignment They are used to achieve wrapping text around images on either the right or left hand side, or to display an image that’s centered without text on either side of it. If the text beside the images does not occupy the same amount of space that the image beside it does then the text wrapping will continue and the images and text that follow will have a staggered appearance.

  Align-left means position left, with the rest of the content wrapping around the right side of the image.
  Align-right means position right, with the rest of the content wrapping around the left side of the image.
  Align-center means position center, with no wrap-around (= the rest of the content below the image).
  To prevent the staggered effect what you do is insert the following snippet of code into the HTML editor after each image/text pair:
  <div style="clear:both;"></div>
  Two images side by side set the alignment of both to left.

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  saumarezsmith2014 · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 7:26 pm

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  Thank you.

  The thing is I want to have 5 images side by side… no text, just images.

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  timethief · Member · Jan 30, 2014 at 7:27 pm

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  on a separate issue, I wanted to add a text box with some information.
  Any ideas? ive seen references to plus-ins but dont think those are available. is there a widget that would do that job?

  There is no FTP access and no plugin capability. You cannot add a widget to a sidebar that does not exist.

  Here is your theme description http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/ryu/
  scroll down to:
  Top panel
  Note there are footer widgets in that theme.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

  Here is the live demo link http://ryudemo.wordpress.com/