Sidebar Widget placement issue in wordpress

**londonvienna** · Nov 26, 2009 13:03

Hi Guy's.

So my very first post, so be extra gentle with me please.I'm also getting
on a bit so all this needs a bit of time to seep in.

I cannot figure out how to place my right sidebar widgets higher.

It seems I am not allowed to post a link with under 5 posts

Strange, so my site is called "keeponcycling" You might be able
to figure out the before & after. Hope this is ok, would be pretty
stupid to be banned before I even got going.

I have used firebug, but have not really figured out what I need to
change, delete etc. I am using wordpress.

Cheers
Simon

(Edit: the site is www.keeponcycling.com, and good luck on your ride Simon!

--raena)

**raena** · Nov 26, 2009 22:41

We prevent links from people under 5 posts because this is a major source of spam. I've edited your post to include the link.

**londonvienna** · Nov 28, 2009 08:20

Hi Guys,

Don't want to give up on this. I think I need
to decrease the width of the main column. Home page
One adventure etc. Unfortunately I don't know how to do that.

If I look at the master theme & compare that with mine the
column width is certainly not so wide.

Would really appreciate someone giving me a feed back on
how to decrease the center column width. I presume I have to make a change in the style.css file.BUt how ?

Cheers
Simon

**agarcia831** · Nov 30, 2009 02:12

I'm still new to Wordpress and just getting comfortable with CSS myself, but I looked at the stylesheet and if you want to decrease the width of the center column for this theme, think you have to change the right margin values (highlighted in red below) in #content (near the top of the style.css file) and div#footer (toward the bottom).

#content {
margin-left: 300px;
margin-right: 240px;
float: none;
padding-top: 100px;
display: block;
}

div#footer {
font-size: 11px;
float: none;
clear: left;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;
-khtml-border-radius: 6px;
-webkit-border-radius: 6px;
border-radius: 6px;
border: 1px solid #4d4d4d;
background-color: #181818;
padding: 5px 0 2px;
position: relative;
margin: 10px 240px 20px 300px;
}

Increasing the value should push the right edge of the center column away from the sidebar. not sure whether this will fix the sidebar placement or not, though. hope it helps.

**londonvienna** · Dec 4, 2009 21:05

Thanks for the tip agarcia.

I think normally that would have cracked it, but it didn't this time around

I tried several different width sizes & although it certainly decreased the widget
& column sizes. My widget didn't budge from the bottom.

I think were close, any other takers out there please ?

Cheers Simon