Sidebar calendar pointing today

CMS & WordPress
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First sorry that I repeat my question again, but as I put this question within another thread, I thought I’d better put it in a separate thread.

I’m trying to add calendar to my sidebar.
Just plain calendar with indicating today(like a circle to today), it’ll be okay.
But as I add default Calendar widget from WP admin->widget to sidebar,
it only shows calendar, I mean only dates no indicating today.
So I don’t know what date today is from the calendar.
Do I have to fix something or do you know a calendar I can plug in?

Thanks again.

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This could be a CSS styling issue - have you checked that days with posts are linked? Does the HTML source of your calendar on the page have a seperate CSS class for todays date?

Without knowing what version / theme you’re using it’s a bit hard to tell where the problem lies.

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Thanks for the reply.
I’m using Wordpress 3.0 and Twenty-Ten theme.
I went to Appearance -> Widgets and dragged and dropped Calendar from left side to the right Primary Widget Area,
and the it appears in my site sidebar as this.(Please see the attached file-caledar.GIF)
As you see, it does not pointing today, (not even with circle), is it normal behavior of Wordpress 3.0 calendar widget, or
did I miss something?

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ok, I used http://2010dev.wordpress.com/ to get a sense of what your issue is.

The current implementation uses CSS - id=“today”. There is no styling for that ID in the twenty-ten theme to differentiate it. You’d need to modify the twenty-ten CSS file appropriately:

#today { background-color: #EEEEEE; }

I wouldn’t suggest underlining it as it’s not a link. A link will only appear for when there is an article associated with the day (see example at http://2010dev.wordpress.com/2010/06/)

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Thanks for the reply.
I added

#today { background-color: #EEEEEE; }

at the end of style.css of TwentyTen theme, but nothing happened.
But I found if I posted something today, then today is indicated with blue color with link, and if I clicked the link, it went to the posting.
So Wordpress 3.0 calendar is for tracking down today’s posting?
Is there any calendar that just shows today’s date in the sidebar?

Thanks,

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I am 100% certain that you can use CSS to highlight today’s date as I have outlined - there maybe some configuration/conflict in your particular case. I you provide the URL, or PM me with it, then I will give you a definitive answer.

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Thanks, the URL is http://www.siwhacpc.com/ - the contents are Korean, but you can see the calendar there. Thanks a lot!!

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ok, there is definitely an inherency issue or cascading conflict, add “!important” to the end of your CSS declaration like so:

#today { background-color: #EEEEEE !important; }

You can change the #EEEEEE value to another hex value to suit your desired color.