Sidebar Trouble: I want it to stay the same and not change when people navigate
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Basically I use my blog to post around the internet in forums and facebook. I don’t link to my home page, instead I link to individual articles. But when you are directly linked to an article the sidebar doesn’t show the same as if you were at my homepage. I’m missing A LOT of connections because of this. I have all the ways to keep in touch in the sidebar and I want it to show these things when someone is at an individual article page. Please help! Also I have purchased the CSS editing. I am pretty novice at it but if someone explains well I think I can figure it out. Thanks in advance!
Steven
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What shows on what page type varies from theme to theme. Basically you will have to change themes to one that shows the same sidebar on all page types.
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CSS is for styling elements on the web pages. It is not for adding or changing functionality.
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ok thanks, i have steira. Where can I disable the comments so the sidebar remains the same on static pages?
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For existing posts, you will have to disable comments for each of those posts. You can use the bulk edit feature and turn off comments on a bunch of existing posts at once.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/edit-posts-screen/
http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/edit-pages-screen/To turn off comments on future posts and pages, you go to settings discussion and turn off comments and trackbacks (which are treated as comments).
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Thanks so much for the help. This worked.
Although for different pages if the comments are off it still doesn’t show the sidebar. It instead shows nothing and says “comments are disabled.”
One last question if I do decide on another theme would I be able to copy and paste the CSS code I have created for into the new theme. I spent a lot of time tweaking it, would I have to start all over again?
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New theme, new stylesheet.
As far as I know, steira doesn’t drop the sidebar on individual posts or even pages, only child pages. Can you give us a link to your blog, starting with http:// so we can have a look?
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No on copy/paste on the CSS. CSS is theme specific, and if you switch themes, it is best to delete all the CSS from the edit window, make sure “add to existing…” is selected and then click save stylesheet. That will return you to the default CSS. If you leave the CSS for the previous theme in their, it can in some instances really mess up the new theme.
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http://habituateoc.wordpress.com/
If you click on “Accustom Yourself” or where I have written “leave a message here” you can see on these pages that the sidebar is empty and it says “comments are closed.”
And thanks for the info on the CSS editing.
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Since you have the CSS upgrade, you can at least hide the “comments are closed” stuff.
p.nocomments { display: none; }Also, your header image is about 754k in file size. I would suggest optimizing that down to around 100k as the “Accustom Yourself” page takes a while to load. The same with the “pretty brain” image at 377k.
Another thing, hosting those images off-site will slow things down. It is better to host theme here in your media library as it will make page load times much faster and also keep you from running into times when the other site might be down and then the images don’t load at all.
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Massively slow loading on the homepage. Perhaps consider also cutting down the number of posts you are showing there.
Secondly, on this individual post, http://habituateoc.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/acid-test-series-absurd-recordings-2/ I see the sidebar.
As far as the sidebar, I can only conclude that there’s something in your CSS which is hiding the widgets. I changed my demo blog to steria and added widgets and they all show in the sidebar on individual posts and pages. The only page where I’m not seeing them in the sidebar is on Child Pages.
Also, just FYI, staff have requested that the CSS upgrade not be used to remove the footer credits (Blog at WordPress.com and the theme/theme author).
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@Jennifer: on single posts and static pages, the regular sidebar content is replaced by the comments if commenting is on.
@ocinteeni: you need to uncheck “Allow trackbacks and pingbacks on this page” as well.
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How do I cut down on the amount of posts shown on the home page? I have been wanting to do that.
And thanks for the advice everyone. I have been meaning to optimize the photos to make the site load faster. I will definitely be making the file sizes smaller and hosting them on wordpress. Thanks SO much for the help everyone! This is my first stab at a blog so this is all really good info.
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To limit the number of posts per page, you go to Settings > Reading > “Blog pages display at most”.
You can also truncate each post using the read-more tag:
http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/ -
Loading speed will also improve if you upload the images to your blog instead of linking to files hosted elsewhere.
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