Need help – Lost part of template and CSS
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Hi- Any help appreciated. I used a template called Andreas04 which besides being a nice looking one had the “About” page already built into its design to the top right below the header and above where the 2 columns of widgets are placed with a two column wide line below it. The inserted widgets go below it and have a one column wide line below them. Since it did not allow a custom header and I wanted a large photo that looked like part of the header ( below and to the right above the widgets looked good). I edited the special built in “About” page by deleting the title “About” and inserting a large photo centered and just smaller than the line below the built in “About”. It looked great. It was always just to the right of my most recent blog. Now I lost it. I had a problem and accidentally deleted the page and lost the built in page altogether. I even switched templates and returned and it was still gone. I deleted everything in my blog, and rebuilt it and reloaded the template and still gone. I must have deleted something irrecoverable following normal blog template swap or clean-out and remove and then re-add template. Its very weird and without changing the blog name and truly starting from scratch (which does work) I’m stuck. Does anyone know how to get that “special” “About” page back without changing my blog address at http://genevaanderson.wordpress.com/ ( where its gone but the original template has it). Changing my name in the blog would mess me up. I looked into CSS modification but also being new, I would have to learn CSS. I plan on doing that and played around changing fonts, sizes etc… for fun, but changing it to allow the insertion of a photo requires much deeper understanding than the hour I played with it. Does anyone know how to simply get that canned “built in” About page above the widgets back for an existing blog or if impossible, is it possible with CSS and if so, could you give me a general description to explore — remembering I’m new at this.
thanks Tom and Geneva
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Have you tried just adding a new page? I don’t think there’s anything ‘special’ about it. On your dashboard, where you normally click to add a new post, click new page. Put the picture in as before and save the changes. I just tried this on my test blog and it worked fine, putting the page above the sidebars as you’d expect.
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@rosclarke-I think they’re talking about the “About” page itself appearing in the sidebar (not the navbar and not a link to the About page), which seems to be a default of the Andreas 04 theme.
@thomaseames- The minute you add a new widget to a sidebar, the theme’s default widgets in the sidebar changes. It might be possible to get it back by removing all the widgets you’ve added and then save again. No guarantees, though.
Other possibility is to add a text widget to your sidebar with the photo.
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Yes, that’s what I thought. I tried making a new page, called it About and it appeared above the two sidebars just as the OP describes. Maybe you have to call the page About for this to happen (and then edit it later if you don’t want the title)?
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With andreas04, if you have a page titled “about” (and you don’t change the permalink) then it will appear at the top of the two sidebars spanning both of them. It doesn’t matter if you add widgets or not, it will be there.
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So if you’ve accidentally deleted that page, like the OP, how do you recover it? Because presumably any pages they now create will be about-n.
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That won’t work in this case. Pages are not usually shown on the blog home page. You have to click on a page to see it. Because the Andreas4 blog theme template had the unique design of always showing the first “About” page on the home page and second and subsequent pages were listed and clicked to reach, I used it as a trick to add a large photo that is always seen on my home page. That makes it similar to a custom header except the header is across the top and the photo is just below it always on the top of the widget columns. It makes the header look like a bar across the top with a photo hung below the bar to the right that is large. If you look at the Andreas4 theme, you can see how its unique in showing the About page at the top of the two columns of widgets. Not only is it always on the home page but its 2 columns wide so it actually looks like it might be part of a header structure. Only problem is, when I accidentally deleted the page, I could never get it back ALWAYS on the home page. If its not showing on the home page, then its just a page and not part of the home page as a photo. I used this special way of showing the first About page as a trick to get a large photo into my home page since the theme doesn’t allow a custom header photo upload. I hope that makes sense.
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Yes, just change the permalink to “about” although you might have to wait a day in order to do it if the original was just recently deleted. Everything here is held in a database and when we “delete” something on our blogs, it isn’t actually deleted but just marked for deletion in the database and then there is a mass delete of things on a scheduled basis although no one knows what that schedule is. Typically it is 24 hours.
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Oh look, there’s a little Edit button next to the permalink on the Edit Page page. Never noticed that before! Well, that’s easy then.
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Hi.
I hope someone here can help me out or point me to the right direction.
My template on my homepage is missing the navigation but if you view any subpages the navigation appears. I don’t know what happened and what to do. Please have a look at http://allthingsgirl.wordpress.com. -
My mistake, the navigation has shifted to the bottom of my page. This template is also a WordPress standard theme.
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