Widgets on the Spun theme

amandarandall · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 7:25 pm
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Hi I got the free version of the spun theme and I want to be able to see the widgets without having to keep pressing the plus sign and the same for my viewers, is there a way to do this without having to purchase it fully?

Many thanks!

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justjennifer · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 8:05 pm
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There is nothing to purchase. This is how the Spun theme works. http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/spun/

Widgets
Widget Area Toggle ButtonSpun supports three columns of widgets in the site’s footer, tucked away in a toggle area underneath your main content. Add some widgets by going to Appearance → Widgets, then click on the plus sign to toggle the widget area open or closed.
amandarandall · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 8:18 pm
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That’s what I want to fix, is there someway I can edit the css (I’m actually new with that) where it will stay open? I read about it on another site but it made no sense to me.
raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 9:38 pm
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Do you have the Custom Design upgrade?
amandarandall · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 9:48 pm
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I don’t unfortunately.
justjennifer · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 10:01 pm
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You can preview your CSS changes without purchasing the Custom Design upgrade at least to see if what you want to do is possible. In my limited experience, CSS can be used to change the appearance of theme elements, but not their functionality.
amandarandall · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 10:09 pm
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I’m not sure how to do that but I will look into it. Thank you so much for your help, I wish you a very Merry Christmas. :)
justjennifer · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 10:17 pm
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Why not ask in the CSS Customization forum? https://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/css-customization
raincoaster · Member · Dec 22, 2013 at 10:28 pm
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If the default were that the widgets were ON, this would be easy; make the button invisible. But it may not be possible since the default is that the widgets are off.
justpi · Member · Dec 24, 2013 at 12:32 am
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@Jen & rain:
This is a mixture of functionality and appearance. The +/- button is a show/hide toggle for the widget section that’s always there in the HTML of the page. The toggle action is functionality, the widgets are functionality, but whether they show or not is appearance! You can’t use CSS to create a toggle button, but you can use CSS to remove the button and make the existing widget section show permanently.

@pinkie8612:
As raincoaster implied in her first response, you can’t do this if you don’t have the upgrade. And as Jen suggested, you can preview it. If you want to preview it, paste the following into the CSS editor:
```
.sidebar-link {
display: none;
}
.widget-area {
display: block;
}
```
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 24, 2013 at 12:39 am
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Hi, you have a holiday gift as it is actually possible to make the widgets on Spun show all the time with the following custom CSS. Go to Appearance > Customize > CSS, clear the informational text out completely and paste in the following.
```
.widget-area {
    display: block !important;
}
.sidebar-link {
    display: none;
}
```
thesacredpath · Member · Dec 24, 2013 at 12:43 am
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Sorry, I forgot to say that the above change you can preview at Appearance > Customize > CSS, but it would require the Custom Design upgrade in order to save the above changes and make the widgets show all the time.
matthew2142 · Member · Jan 11, 2014 at 7:59 pm
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Thank you @thesacredpath! I had the same issue and have been looking for this solution for a while now. Thanks again, this was a huge help.
thesacredpath · Member · Jan 16, 2014 at 3:53 am
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You are welcome.

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